PostgreSQL TODO List
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
-Last updated: Sun Sep 3 09:37:32 EDT 2006
+Last updated: Sun Sep 10 18:19:48 EDT 2006
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
cmin/cmax pair and is stored in local memory. Another idea is to
store both cmin and cmax only in local memory.
-* Research storing disk pages with no alignment/padding
+* Consider ways of storing rows more compactly on disk
+
+ o Store disk pages with no alignment/padding?
+ o Reorder physical storage order to reduce padding?
+ o Support a smaller header for short variable-length fields?
+ o Reduce the row header size?
Source Code
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<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated: Sun Sep 3 09:37:32 EDT 2006
+Last updated: Sun Sep 10 18:19:48 EDT 2006
</p>
<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
cmin/cmax pair and is stored in local memory. Another idea is to
store both cmin and cmax only in local memory.
</p>
- </li><li>Research storing disk pages with no alignment/padding
+ </li><li>Consider ways of storing rows more compactly on disk
+ <ul>
+ <li>Store disk pages with no alignment/padding?
+ </li><li>Reorder physical storage order to reduce padding?
+ </li><li>Support a smaller header for short variable-length fields?
+ </li><li>Reduce the row header size?
+ </li></ul>
</li></ul>
<h1><a name="section_22">Source Code</a></h1>