Re: WIP: Fast GiST index build - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alexander Korotkov
Subject Re: WIP: Fast GiST index build
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In response to Re: WIP: Fast GiST index build  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com">heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com</a>></span>wrote:<br
/><blockquoteclass="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Why is there
evera buffer on the root node? It seems like a waste of time to load N tuples from the heap into the root buffer, only
toempty the buffer after it fills up. You might as well pull tuples directly from the heap.<br
/></blockquote></div>Yes,seems reasonable. Buffer on the root node was in the paper. But now I don't see the need of it
too.<br/><br />------<br />With best regards,<br />Alexander Korotkov.<br /> 

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