Re: Next Steps with Hash Indexes

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(dot)riggs(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Next Steps with Hash Indexes
Date: 2021-08-12 15:00:23
Message-ID: CA+TgmobvOobBQQ1Rg41T=vDJiXO5BcX_2WdaofeMOb7B4vqfqA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:22 AM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> The design of the patch has changed since the initial proposal. It
> tries to perform unique inserts by holding a write lock on the bucket
> page to avoid duplicate inserts.

Do you mean that you're holding a buffer lwlock while you search the
whole bucket? If so, that's surely not OK.

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Robert Haas
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