Re: Hash Indexes

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, Mithun Cy <mithun.cy@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-09-30T00:28:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> Well, I, for one, find it frustrating.  It seems pretty unhelpful to
>> bring this up only after the code has already been written.
>
> I brought this up in person at pgcon too.

To whom?  In what context?

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


Commits

  1. Remove _hash_wrtbuf() in favor of calling MarkBufferDirty().

  2. Fix race introduced by 6d46f4783efe457f74816a75173eb23ed8930020.

  3. Improve hash index bucket split behavior.

  4. Reduce pinning and buffer content locking for btree scans.