GiST improvements:

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>

Commit: eda6dd32d15fe85bfddf6caf32d1a861c4fa5957
Author: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: 2005-05-17T00:59:30Z
Releases: 8.1.0
GiST improvements:

- make sure we always invoke user-supplied GiST methods in a short-lived
  memory context. This means the backend isn't exposed to any memory leaks
  that be in those methods (in fact, it is probably a net loss for most
  GiST methods to bother manually freeing memory now). This also means
  we can do away with a lot of ugly manual memory management in the
  GiST code itself.

- keep the current page of a GiST index scan pinned, rather than doing a
  ReadBuffer() for each tuple produced by the scan. Since ReadBuffer() is
  expensive, this is a perf. win

- implement dead tuple killing for GiST indexes (which is easy to do, now
  that we keep a pin on the current scan page). Now all the builtin indexes
  implement dead tuple killing.

- cleanup a lot of ugly code in GiST

Files

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doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml modified +2 −2
src/backend/access/gist/gist.c modified +250 −403
src/backend/access/gist/gistget.c modified +184 −193
src/backend/access/gist/gistscan.c modified +160 −108
src/include/access/gist.h modified +23 −12