Re: Yet another fast GiST build

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski <me(at)komzpa(dot)net>, Pavel Borisov <pashkin(dot)elfe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Yet another fast GiST build
Date: 2021-01-17 20:50:31
Message-ID: 234863.1610916631@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> On 12/01/2021 18:19, Andrey Borodin wrote:
>> Thanks! Looks good to me.

> Pushed, thanks!

I noticed that gist_page_items() thinks it can hold inter_call_data->rel
open across a series of calls. That's completely unsafe: the executor
might not run the call series to completion (see LIMIT), resulting in
relcache leak complaints. I suspect that it might have cache-flush
hazards even without that. I think this code needs to be rewritten to do
all the interesting work in the first call. Or maybe better, return the
results as a tuplestore so you don't have to do multiple calls at all.

regards, tom lane

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