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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Mihail Nikalayeu <[email protected]>
To: Sergey Sargsyan <[email protected]>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
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Cc: Andrey Borodin <[email protected]>
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Cc: Matthias van de Meent <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Revisiting {CREATE INDEX, REINDEX} CONCURRENTLY improvements
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:00:59 +0200
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Hello, Sergey!
> I think it's to avoid duplicate errors when adding tuples from STIP to the main index,
> but couldn't we just suppress that error during validation and skip the new tuple insertion if it already exists?
In some cases, it is not possible:
– Some index types (GiST, GIN, BRIN) do not provide an easy way to
detect such duplicates.
– When we are building a unique index, we cannot simply skip
duplicates, because doing so would also skip the rows that should
prevent the unique index from being created (unless we add extra logic
for B-tree indexes to compare TIDs as well).
> The main index may get huge after building, and iterating over it in a single thread and then sorting tids can be time consuming.
My tests indicate that the overhead is minor compared with the time
spent scanning the heap and building the index itself.
> At least I guess one can skip it when STIP is empty.
Yes, that’s a good idea; I’ll add it later.
> p.s. I noticed that `stip.c` has a lot of functions that don't follow the Postgres coding style of return type on separate line.
Hmm... I’ll fix that as well.
Best regards,
Mikhail.
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