Re: Re: GiST optimizing memmoves in gistplacetopage for fixed-size updates [PoC]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Andrew Borodin <borodin(at)octonica(dot)com> wrote:
> Here is a patch with corrections from Alexander Korotkov.
> My tests, check and check-world show no problems against Ubuntu LTS 14 x64 VM.
>
>

- PageIndexTupleDelete(page, oldoffnum);
- gistfillbuffer(page, itup, ntup, InvalidOffsetNumber);
+ {
+ /*if we have just one tuple to update we replace it on-place on page*/
+ if(ntup == 1)
+ {
+ PageIndexTupleOverwrite(page,oldoffnum,*itup);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ /*this corner case is here to support mix calls case (see comment above)*/
+ PageIndexTupleDelete(page, oldoffnum);
+ gistfillbuffer(page, itup, ntup, InvalidOffsetNumber);
+ }

Here, you have changed the way tuple is added on a page, but still the
WAL record is same as before. I think WAL replay should perform the
action in a same way as we have done when original operation is
performed. If not, then it can change the organization of page which
might lead to failure in replay of consecutive WAL records.

+ /*if we have just one tuple to update we replace it on-place on page*/

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