Re: Remove custom redundant full page write description from GIN

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>

Cc: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-10-06T07:28:12Z

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Improve description of some WAL records for GIN
- 138da727a174 19 (unreleased) landed
Add comment in ginxlog.h about block used with ginxlogInsertListPage
- 42c6b74d8928 19 (unreleased) landed
Remove block information from description of some WAL records for GIN
- 7072a8855e84 19 (unreleased) landed
Remove useless pointer update in ginxlog.c
- 3f431109dc63 19 (unreleased) landed

On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 03:39:35PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Yep, not sure that I see the full benefit of what you are doing here.
> A thread describing problems around the WAL descriptions is not suited
> for what you are qualifying as an optimization.  Same for 0004.  0003
> is small enough that I would not bother with a different thread, now
> that you've posted a patch..

Worth a note.  I had some time and applied patches 0001, 0003 and
0005, as they are worth their own.
--
Michael