On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 4:45 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> BTW, I think that increasing MaxHeapTuplesPerPage will make it
> necessary to consider tidbitmap.c. Comments at the top of that file
> say that it is assumed that MaxHeapTuplesPerPage is about 256. So
> there is a risk of introducing performance regressions affecting
> bitmap scans here.
More concretely, WORDS_PER_PAGE increases from 5 on the master branch
to 16 with the latest version of the patch series on most platforms
(while WORDS_PER_CHUNK is 4 with or without the patches).
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Peter Geoghegan