Re: posting tree compression (WAS: Proposal: fix range queries in btree_gin) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: posting tree compression (WAS: Proposal: fix range queries in btree_gin)
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZwmhoZhJVm3BZSeLkpr0rg9EMit0bgXAzK1kXNPbGRRw@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: posting tree compression (WAS: Proposal: fix range queries in btree_gin)  (Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Alexander Korotkov
<aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> after reading Heikki Linnakangas presentation about GIN from Nordic PGDay, I
> figure out that btree_gin became much more attractive.
> http://hlinnaka.iki.fi/presentations/NordicPGDay2014-GIN.pdf

This is a mighty interesting presentation.  Could the posting tree
compression described on the "posting tree page format" slides (pp.
16-17, I think) be used for btree also?  Would we get similar
benefits?  How much more expensive are updates with the new system?

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Robert Haas
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