Re: [PATCHES] GIN improvements

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-07-23T20:44:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> writes:

> I didn't get much further than that because I got discouraged after
> looking at the locking issues around the pending-insertions list.
> It's a mess:

These are rather severe problems.  Maybe there's a better solution, but
perhaps it would be good enough to lock out concurrent access to the
index while the bulkinsert procedure is working.




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