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Re: Yet another fast GiST build

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski <me@komzpa.net>, Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-12-07T18:56:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 2:05 AM Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
> Here's version with tests and docs. I still have no idea how to print some useful information about tuples keys.

I suggest calling BuildIndexValueDescription() from your own custom
debug instrumentation code.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. Add sortsupport for gist_btree opclasses, for faster index builds.

  2. pageinspect: Fix relcache leak in gist_page_items().

  3. Fix test failure with wal_level=minimal.

  4. Enhance nbtree index tuple deletion.

  5. Fix portability issues in the new gist pageinspect test.

  6. Add functions to 'pageinspect' to inspect GiST indexes.

  7. Fix missing validation for the new GiST sortsupport functions.

  8. Fix compilation warning in xlog.c

  9. Set right-links during sorted GiST index build.

  10. Fix checksum calculation in the new sorting GiST build.

  11. Add support for building GiST index by sorting.