Re: WIP: Covering + unique indexes.

Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
To: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-04-04T14:14:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> It seems to me that the patch is completed.
> Except, maybe, grammar check of comments and documentation.
>
> Looking forward to your review.
Are there any objectins on it? I'm planning to look closely today or tommorrow 
and commit it.

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Teodor Sigaev                                   E-mail: teodor@sigaev.ru
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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