Re: Yet another fast GiST build

Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
To: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, "Andrey M. Borodin" <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski <me@komzpa.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-09-10T11:19:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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> Interesting to see also the size of index, it should be several times less.
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> I've tested this above in CF thread and got ordered GiST index ~1.7 times
smaller than non-ordered one for single column of real points.


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Best regards,
Pavel Borisov

Postgres Professional: http://postgrespro.com <http://www.postgrespro.com>

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.