Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major - P3
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
The keys in the lookaside table can be long and all the entries for a given value share a prefix. We should enable prefix compression to get a more compact representation of lookaside entries in memory and on disk. This should be particularly noticeable for workloads with small document sizes.
Note: this work started in WT-3769, which evolved into a bug fix for reverse cursor walks with particular delete patterns with prefix compression enabled.