pgsql: Fix building of large (bigger than shared_buffers) hash indexes. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Fix building of large (bigger than shared_buffers) hash indexes.
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Msg-id E1bGYAd-0005KJ-77@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Responses Re: pgsql: Fix building of large (bigger than shared_buffers) hash indexes.  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Fix building of large (bigger than shared_buffers) hash indexes.

When the index is predicted to need more than NBuffers buckets,
CREATE INDEX attempts to sort the index entries by hash key before
insertion, so as to reduce thrashing.  This code path got broken by
commit 9f03ca915196dfc8, which overlooked that _hash_form_tuple() is not
just an alias for index_form_tuple().  The index got built anyway, but
with garbage data, so that searches for pre-existing tuples always
failed.  Fix by refactoring to separate construction of the indexable
data from calling index_form_tuple().

Per bug #14210 from Daniel Newman.  Back-patch to 9.5 where the
bug was introduced.

Report: <20160623162507.17237.39471@wrigleys.postgresql.org>

Branch
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REL9_5_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/07f69137b15e594edfaec29f73efa86aa442902c

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/hash/hash.c     | 34 +++++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/access/hash/hashutil.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
src/include/access/hash.h          |  5 +++--
3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)


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