Re: WIP: Fast GiST index build

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-06T12:14:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <
heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> Do you think there's some worst-case data distributions where this
> algorithm would perform particularly badly?
>
I think there could be some worst-case GiST applications. Just now gist fast
build algorithm invokes more penalty calls than repeatable insert algorithm.
If I succeed then it will invoke even more such calls. So, if penalty
function is very slow then gist fast build will be slover then
repeatable insert.

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With best regards,
Alexander Korotkov.