Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

"Kevin Grittner" <[email protected]> writes:
> So you are essentially proposing that rather than moving the heap
> data into the leaf tuples of the index in the index file, you will
> move the leaf index data into the heap tuples?  The pages in such a
> IOT heap file would still need to look a lot like index pages, yes?

> I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but I'm curious what benefits you
> see to taking that approach.

Isn't that just a variant on Heikki's "grouped index tuples" idea?

                       regards, tom lane