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

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Emre Hasegeli <emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Better tracking of free space during SP-GiST index build
Date: 2016-09-28 17:48:56
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYSZS1CZfapL3x58_fT08_LK7AhyYNGspaviWmg6ro6NQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Tomas Vondra
<tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Sure, that would be useful.
>
> I think it would be useful to make repository of such data sets, so that
> patch authors & reviewers can get a reasonable collection of data sets if
> needed, instead of scrambling every time. Opinions?

In theory, great idea. In practice, I suspect the problem will be
that nobody will know what the use case for a particular data set was
supposed to be, and therefore it'll become a collection of files
nobody knows what to do with.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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