Re: [PATCHES] GIN improvements

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-12-03T01:06:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>> - Falling back to regular insert will take long time for update of whole 
>> table - and that was one of reasons of that patch. Users forget to drop 
>> GIN index before a global update and query runs forever.

> If *that* is a use case we're interested in, the incoming tuples could 
> be accumulated in backend-private memory, and inserted into the index at 
> commit. That would be a lot simpler, with no need to worry about 
> concurrent inserts or vacuums.

Doesn't work --- the index would yield wrong answers for later queries
in the same transaction.

			regards, tom lane