Re: WIP: Covering + unique indexes.

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Anastasia Lubennikova <a(dot)lubennikova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: Covering + unique indexes.
Date: 2018-04-10 16:03:11
Message-ID: bb1c15c3-5d65-1113-8743-68d246fc894f@sigaev.ru
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> * There is no pfree() within _bt_buildadd() for truncated tuples, even
> though that's a context where it's clearly not okay.
Agree

>
> * It might be a good idea to also pfree() the truncated tuple for most
> other _bt_buildadd() callers. Even though it's arguably okay in other
> cases, it seems worth being consistent about it (consistent with old
> nbtree code).
Seems, I don't see other calls to pfree after.

> * There should probably be some documentation around why it's okay
> that we call index_truncate_tuple() with an exclusive buffer lock held
> (during a page split). For example, there should probably be a comment
> on the VARATT_IS_EXTERNAL() situation.
I havn't objection to improve docs/comments.

>
> * Not sure that all calls to BTreeInnerTupleGetDownLink() are limited
> to inner tuples, which might be worth doing something about (perhaps
> just renaming the macro).
What is suspicious place for you opinion?

>
> I do not have the time to write a patch right away, but I should be
> able to post one in a few days. I want to avoid sending several small
> patches.
no problem, we can wait

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