Re: WIP: Covering + unique indexes.

Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
To: Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Alexander Kuzmenkov <a.kuzmenkov@postgrespro.ru>
Date: 2018-04-06T17:20:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
As far I can see, there is no any on-disk representation differece for 
*existing* indexes. So, pg_upgrade is not need here and there isn't any new code 
to support "on-fly" modification. Am I right?



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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