From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Morris de Oryx <morrisdeoryx(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Remedial C: Does an ltree GiST index *ever* set recheck to true? |
Date: | 2024-08-30 02:18:11 |
Message-ID: | 330807.1724984291@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Morris de Oryx <morrisdeoryx(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> From what I've seen in the wild, and can sort out from the source, I think
> that ltree does *not* need to load rows from heap.
The comment in ltree_consistent is pretty definitive:
/* All cases served by this function are exact */
*recheck = false;
> I wonder because an ltree GiST index is "lossy" and this behavior is more
> like a lossless strategy. I think that's either because I've misunderstood
> what "lossy" means in this case, or it's because ltree GiST index *pages *are
> based on a signature (lossy), while ltree GiST index *leaf entries* contain
> the full tree/path (lossless.)
Yeah, the code is not terribly well commented but this bit in ltree.h
appears to be saying that leaf entries contain the original ltree:
* type of index key for ltree. Tree are combined B-Tree and R-Tree
* Storage:
* Leaf pages
* (len)(flag)(ltree)
* Non-Leaf
* (len)(flag)(sign)(left_ltree)(right_ltree)
* ALLTRUE: (len)(flag)(left_ltree)(right_ltree)
and that seems consistent with the fact that ltree_consistent
does different things at leaf and non-leaf levels.
regards, tom lane
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