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page compaction after encoding
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- Rust
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Description
For encodings like fsst, we store the decoding meta data in PageInfo.encoding, however, we may expect many decoding meta data in one page after compaction
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing page compaction and the PageInfo.encoding metadata path; the issue names no file or test. Determine how multiple decoding metadata entries should be represented after compaction, then verify that the chosen representation handles pages containing many encoding metadata entries.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100