Re: GIN improvements

Teodor Sigaev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Right now this is not a problem because there is no insert_cleanup
> function for btree, but I wonder if we should clean it up.
Look at gistbulkdelete and gistvacuumcleanup, first function wants to send a 
bool flag to second one and they use GiSTBulkDelete structure instead of usual 
IndexBulkDeleteResult. When it will be needed btree may use the same method.

> 
> FWIW there's a typo in catalogs.sgml (finction -> function)
Thank you, will fix.

> What's the use of the FASTUPDATE parameter?  Is there a case when a user
> is interested in turning it off?

Yeah - when time of search is much-much more important (or crucial)  than 
insertion time. Or table stores read-only values.

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