Re: Yet another fast GiST build

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski <me(at)komzpa(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Yet another fast GiST build
Date: 2019-08-26 10:47:22
Message-ID: a2a08c27-6094-74f7-026e-b0064a6e2f8d@iki.fi
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On 26/08/2019 10:59, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> In many cases GiST index can be build fast using z-order sorting.
>
> I've looked into proof of concept by Nikita Glukhov [0] and it looks very interesting.
> So, I've implemented yet another version of B-tree-like GiST build.

Cool!

> My biggest concern is that passing function to relation option seems
> a bit hacky. You can pass there any function matching sort support
> signature. Embedding this function into opclass makes no sense: it
> does not affect scan anyhow.

I think it should be a new, optional, GiST "AM support function", in
pg_amproc. That's how the sort support functions are defined for B-tree
opfamilies, too.

- Heikki

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