Re: GiST: memory allocation, cleanup

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Subject: Re: GiST: memory allocation, cleanup
Date: 2004-11-05 21:56:50
Message-ID: 20041105215650.GA5746@surnet.cl
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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 04:41:00PM +1100, Neil Conway wrote:

> Comments welcome. I would like to apply this to 8.1 at some point after
> we branch for 8.0. I thought I would post this patch to get some
> feedback before starting on further GiST work (speculatively, adding
> support for concurrency and making it WAL-safe).

What are you going to base your concurrency work on? I wonder because I
skimmed through Marcel Kornacker's theses, and for example it mentioned
use of predicate locking (among other interesting things). Do you have
any ideas yet on how to handle that?

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