Re: Double sorting split patch

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Double sorting split patch
Date: 2011-09-15 15:27:55
Message-ID: 4E72197B.9040602@enterprisedb.com
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On 11.09.2011 22:30, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> Hackers,
>
> I've got my patch with double sorting picksplit impementation for GiST into
> more acceptable form. A little of testing is below. Index creation time is
> slightly higher, but search is much faster. The testing datasets were
> following:
> 1) uniform dataset - 10M rows
> 2) geonames points - 7.6M rows

I've looked at the patch, and took a brief look at the paper - but I
still don't understand the algorithm. I just can't get my head around
the concepts of split pairs and left/right groups. Can you explain that
in layman's terms? Perhaps an example would help?

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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