Size limit on GiST nodes not documented

From: Morten Hustveit <morten(dot)hustveit(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Size limit on GiST nodes not documented
Date: 2012-12-22 13:59:01
Message-ID: CAL3abtUPLt4o2oL8z2w4tuqj8qZ1QDcXsm43upUE-Yo=Cam9sQ@mail.gmail.com
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In GiST indexes, storing nodes larger than an index page is apparently
not allowed. This prohibits, for example, storing 600 entry float8
arrays in the index. For SP-GiST in PostgreSQL 9.2, it was decided
that this should be documented:

"Individual leaf tuples and inner tuples must fit on a single index
page (8KB by default)."[1]

... but for GiST indexes, this is never mentioned explicitly. The
result was that I wasted many hours developing a GiST index before
noticing it could not be used with my data.

1. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/spgist-implementation.html#SPGIST-LIMITS

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