Re: [HACKERS] GSoC 2017: weekly progress reports (week 6)

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I don't quite understand the new call in gininsert -- I mean I see that
> it wants to check for conflicts even when fastupdate is set, but why?
If fastupdate is set then we check conflict with whole index, not a particular
pages in it. Predicate lock on penging list pages will be effectively a lock
over index, because every scan will begin from pending list and each insert will
insert into it. I

> Maybe, just maybe, it would be better to add a new flag to the
> GinCheckForSerializableConflictIn function, that's passed differently
> for this one callsite, and then a comment next to it that indicates why
> do we test for fastupdates in one case and not the other case.
> If you don't like this idea, then I think more commentary on why
> fastupdate is not considered in gininsert is warranted.
>
> In startScanEntry, if you "goto restartScanEntry" in the fastupdate
> case, are you trying to acquire the same lock again? Maybe the lock
> acquire should occur before the goto target? (If this doesn't matter for
> some reason, maybe add a comment about it)
Thank you for noticing that, I've completely rework this part. Somehow I
misreaded actual work of GinGetPendingListCleanupSize() :(.

See attached patch
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