Re: [WiP] B-tree page merge during vacuum to reduce index bloat - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 4:28 PM Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
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> Hi Madhav!
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> It's available here [0], it's only a prototype.
> But the approach with AccessExclusiveLock is not practically useful.
> Just REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY will do better in most cases.

Thank you for sharing this, Andrey!

> Perhaps, I agree with Pavlo that it seems overly rigorous for GSoC.
> It's more like math research than code typing.

That is a fair point. I do understand that this is going to be more
mathematical, which is why I'd love to help make progress if
mentorship is possible.