[tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] rfc: describe a Tarantool JSON indexes

[Kirill Shcherbatov]

> 2. As I remember from verbal discussion, we've decided to do not store
> offsets for intermediate nodes. It is too expensive. You actually purpose
> to store an offset for each tuple field, even non-indexed. In such a case
> the field_map would become bigger than the tuple payload. Field_map is
> very expensive storage and should not store non-needed offsets. So you should
> not have an offset on [name], on [birthday]. Only on [first] and [last].
> 
Please, pay attention that we don't allocate offset_slot for intermediate node. 
This is the only cache for tuple_new operation. offset_slot only for leafs.
Without  this feature there is no difference with hash.