Re: Better tracking of free space during SP-GiST index build

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> OK, I'll think about how to do that more efficiently. The smaller
>>> incremental improvement isn't surprising, because in this example the
>>> index would still be 90-something MB if it had no free space at all,
>>> so there's going to be decreasing returns from any additional work
>>> to avoid wasted free space. But if we can do it cheaply, this does
>>> suggest that using pages in order by free space is of value.
>
>> Tom, are you planning to do something about this patch yet this
>> CommitFest, or leave it until later?
>
> I doubt I will get to it this week, so let's mark it RWF for this fest.

OK, done. Thanks for the reply.

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