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page compaction after encoding

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A-encoding enhancement
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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

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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

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