Re: Pluggable Indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Pluggable Indexes
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Msg-id 49777B6E.9030002@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Pluggable Indexes  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
Responses Re: Pluggable Indexes  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Ron Mayer wrote:
> Early (2005)
> GIST indexes were very painful in production environments because vacuuming
> them held locks for a *long* time (IIRC, an hour or so on my database) on
> the indexes locking out queries.  Was that just a shortcoming of the
> implementation, or was it a side-effect of them not supporting recoverability.

The former.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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