Re: [HACKERS] Small improvement to compactify_tuples

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Юрий Соколов <funny.falcon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The same is true of unique indexes vs. non-unique.
>
> offtopic: recently I'd a look at setting LP_DEAD in indexes.
> I didn't found huge difference between unique and non-unique indices.
> There is codepath that works only for unique, but it is called less
> frequently than common codepath that also sets LP_DEAD.

I meant to say that this is only important with UPDATEs + contention.
The extra LP_DEAD setting within _bt_check_unique() makes quite a
noticeable difference, at least in terms of index bloat (though less
so in terms of raw TPS).

--
Peter Geoghegan


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