I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Nested transactions in CockroachDB 20.1. In this article, I explain how I implemented nested transactions and SQL savepoints in CockroachDB v20.1. Also available via the Wayback Machine.| dr knz @ work
I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Memory Usage in CockroachDB. In this article, I explain how I designed approximate memory usage restrictions in CockroachDB v1.0, despite the lack of allocation pools in the Go’s language runtime system. Also available via the Wayback Machine.| dr knz @ work
My friend Nathan and I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Revisiting SQL typing in CockroachDB. In this article, we explain the type system we implemented for CockroachDB v1.0’s SQL dialect. It implements a large subset of PostgreSQL’s own dialect and performs inference using a …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-executable-size-visualization-with-d3.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Note Erratum (2019-04-02): The increase in binary size from CockroachDB v1.0 to v19.2 is 94%/125%, not 194%/225% as initially written. The increase in source code …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-executable-size-visualization-with-d3-2021.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Note After a lively discussion on Hacker News and input from Russ Cox, the conclusions in the analysis below were reworded to avoid the notion of “non-useful bytes”. The …| dr knz @ work
