Re: WIP: Covering + unique indexes.

Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
To: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Cc: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-04-04T19:21:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> wrote:
> Are there any objectins on it? I'm planning to look closely today or
> tommorrow and commit it.

I object to committing the patch in that time frame. I'm looking at it again.


-- 
Peter Geoghegan


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