Re: [PATCH] updates to docs about HOT updates for BRIN

Hello,

On 2024-Feb-26, Stephen Frost wrote:

> Here's an updated patch which tries to improve on the wording a bit by
> having it be a bit more consistent. Would certainly welcome feedback on
> it though, of course. This is a tricky bit of language to write and
> a complex optimization to explain.

Should we try to explain what is a "summarizing" index is? Right now
the only way to know is to look at the source code or attach a debugger
and see if IndexAmRoutine->amsummarizing is true. Maybe we can just say
"currently the only in-core summarizing index is BRIN" somewhere in the
page. (The patch's proposal to say "... such as BRIN" strikes me as too
vague.)

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