Re: Fix for seg picksplit function

Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>

From: Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-06T14:53:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> Do you think now patch is ready for committer or it require further 
> review by you or somebody else?
It's probably ready for committer, however the code now doesn't mention 
any reference or bit of information that it is faster than the original 
one. I was wondering how you discovered this, or is there any reverence 
to e.g. a gist paper/other work where this is researched? If the info is 
available, some comments in the code might help future gist developers 
for picking a right algorithm for other datatypes.

I don't think further review is required, but very much welcome further 
exploration of which picksplit algorithms match which datatype in which 
distribution best.

regards,
Yeb Havinga