Hey Teodor,
How's this going?
I think you were looking at the same paper I was reading about GiST
indexes. I found the GiST source code somewhat over my head, however.
I hope you'll still working on it and haven't given up!
Chris
Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'll have time and wish to work on concurrence GiST during january.
> Now I am reading some paper about this and looking into code of postgres
> for lock management. As I see, postgres doesn't support intentional
> lock. Is it right? or I missed something...
>
> I can use NSN (node sequence number) and I find recommendation to use
> LSN (WAL log sequence number) as NSN. NSN must be stored in page and I
> found that page (PageHeaderData struct) already has XLogRecPtr for
> storing LSN. My question is: who is manage this field? Is it filled
> automatically or I should write code to manage it?
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