Re: Minmax indexes

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-09-25T20:34:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Here's an updated version of this patch, with fixes to all the bugs
reported so far.  Thanks to Thom Brown, Jaime Casanova, Erik Rijkers and
Amit Kapila for the reports.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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Commits

  1. Refactor per-page logic common to all redo routines to a new function.

  2. Reduce use of heavyweight locking inside hash AM.

  3. Scan the buffer pool just once, not once per fork, during relation drop.

  4. Major patch from Thomas Lockhart <Thomas.G.Lockhart@jpl.nasa.gov>