Re: Minmax indexes

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>

To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2013-09-30T11:17:39Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

What would it take to abstract the minmax indexes to allow maintaing a 
bounding box for points, instead of a plain min/max? Or for ranges. In 
other words, why is this restricted to b-tree operators?

- Heikki

Commits

Refactor per-page logic common to all redo routines to a new function.
- f8f4227976a2 9.5.0 cited
Reduce use of heavyweight locking inside hash AM.
- 76837c1507cb 9.3.0 cited
Scan the buffer pool just once, not once per fork, during relation drop.
- ece01aae4792 9.2.0 cited
Major patch from Thomas Lockhart <Thomas.G.Lockhart@jpl.nasa.gov>
- 9e2a87b62db8 7.1.1 cited