Description
Product: Tarantool
Since: 2.10.0-beta2
Audience/target: dev
Root document: https://www.tarantool.io/en/doc/latest/reference/reference_lua/box_schema/space_create/
SME: @ locker
Check if there are other use cases for this new option.
Details
The new option is a boolean flag that only makes sense for Vinyl spaces
that have secondary indexes. Setting the flag results in deferring
generation of DELETE statements for secondary indexes till compaction of
the primary index. It should speed up writes, because it eliminates a
lookup in the space for REPLACE and DELETE operations. At the same time,
it may result in degradation of reads from secondary indexes, because it
entails an additional lookup in the primary index per each "phantom"
tuple (a tuple that was deleted in the primary index, but not yet in the
secondary index, and hence should be skipped on read).
Example:
box.schema.space.create('test', {
engine = 'vinyl',
defer_deletes = true,
})If omitted on space creation, this option is set to the value of
box.cfg.vinyl_defer_deletes, which is false by default.
Requested by @locker in tarantool/tarantool@b9f6d38.