From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tan Tran <tankimtran(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] GSoC on WAL-logging hash indexes |
Date: | 2014-03-03 16:12:53 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoY4X7VKyC4dAwujuTuBoyxE2qSJF9aybhWZjxXWoc6J8w@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Tan Tran <tankimtran(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2. Proposal
> As a GSoC student, I will implement WAL recovery of hash indexes using the
> other index types' WAL code as a guide. Roughly, I will:
> - Devise a way to store and retrieve hashing data within the XLog data
> structures.
> - In the existing skeleton for hash_redo(XLogRecPtr lsn, XLogRecord *record)
> in hash.c, branch to code for the various redo operations: creating an
> index, inserting into an index, deleting an index, and page operations
> (split, delete, update?).
> - Code each branch by drawing on examples from btree_redo, gin_redo, and
> gist_redo, the existing XLog code of the other index types.
Unfortunately, I don't believe that it's possible to do this easily
today because of the way bucket splits are handled. I wrote about
this previously here, with an idea for solving the problem:
Sadly, no one responded. :-(
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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