Re: WIP: Covering + unique indexes.

Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>

From: Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>
To: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Anastasia Lubennikova <lubennikovaav@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2017-03-30T16:12:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi Teodor,

> I had a look on patch and played with it, seems, it looks fine. I splitted
> it to two patches: core changes (+bloom index fix) and btree itself. All
> docs are left in first patch - I'm too lazy to rewrite documentation which
> is changed in second patch.
> Any objection from reviewers to push both patches?

These patches look OK. Definitely no objections from me.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Commits

  1. Adjust INCLUDE index truncation comments and code.

  2. Add commentary explaining why MaxIndexTuplesPerPage calculation is safe.

  3. Indexes with INCLUDE columns and their support in B-tree

  4. Add amcheck verification of heap relations belonging to btree indexes.

  5. Doc: move info for btree opclass implementors into main documentation.

  6. Doc: mention that you can't PREPARE TRANSACTION after NOTIFY.

  7. Remove dedicated B-tree root-split record types.

  8. Restructure index access method API to hide most of it at the C level.

  9. Split _bt_insertonpg to two functions.

  10. Major overhaul of btree index code. Eliminate special BTP_CHAIN logic for