Re: Yet another fast GiST build

> 14 янв. 2021 г., в 04:47, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> написал(а):
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:49 AM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>> I did a bit of cleanup on the function signature. The .sql script
>> claimed that gist_page_items() took bytea as argument, but in reality it
>> was a relation name, as text. I changed it so that it takes a page image
>> as argument, instead of reading the block straight from the index.
>> Mainly to make it consistent with brin_page_items(), if it wasn't for
>> that precedence I might've gone either way on it.
>
> BTW it would be nice if gist_page_items() had a "dead" boolean output
> argument for the item's LP_DEAD bit, just like bt_page_items().
+1. PFA patch.

> I plan
> on adding some testing for GiST's opportunistic index deletion soon. I
> may also add some of the same enhancements that nbtree got today
> (following commit d168b666).
>
> This feature was originally heavily based on the nbtree LP_DEAD
> deletion mechanism (now called simple deletion), and I see no reason
> (or at least no good reason) why it shouldn't be possible to keep it
> in sync (except maybe with bottom-up deletion, where that it at least
> isn't straightforward/mechanical).

Sound great!

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.