Re: [HACKERS] Block B-tree etc. (was Re: Introducing an advanced Frequent Update)

2006-11-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Luke, > That's our plan to achieve speedups that other DBMS's have achieved with > Index-Organized-Tables or Clustered Indexes. We're running initial > performance tests of it as we speak, and if all goes well we're hoping > to get that into PostgreSQL 8.3. Also, if the EDB folks weren't clear, t

[HACKERS] Block B-tree etc. (was Re: Introducing an advanced Frequent Update)

2006-11-07 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Luke Lonergan wrote: Simon, Bring it on! We at GP have been evaluating various approaches to index organized tables which unify index with heap storage to solve some of the problems you mention. Split index and heap is a big issue in Postgres and we'd all welcome a good solution to it, even fo