Re: Hash Indexes

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>> [ new patch ]
>
> Committed with some further cosmetic changes.
>

Thank you very much.

> I think it would be worth testing this code with very long overflow
> chains by hacking the fill factor up to 1000
>

1000 is not a valid value for fill factor. Do you intend to say 100?

 or something of that
> sort, so that we get lots and lots of overflow pages before we start
> splitting.  I think that might find some bugs that aren't obvious
> right now because most buckets get split before they even have a
> single overflow bucket.
>
> Also, the deadlock hazards that we talked about upthread should
> probably be documented in the README somewhere, along with why we're
> OK with accepting those hazards.
>

That makes sense.  I will send a patch along that lines.



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Amit Kapila.
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