> 16 июля 2018 г., в 18:58, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> написал(а):
> 
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote:
>> I'm still a bit scared about using pd_prune_xid to store the XID that
>> prevents recycling the page too early. Can we use some field in
>> GISTPageOpaqueData for that, similar to how the B-tree stores it in
>> BTPageOpaqueData?
> 
> What's your reason for being scared?  It seems to me that the
> alternatives being proposed (altering the size of the special space,
> or sometimes repurposing a field for some other purpose) have their
> own associated scariness.

Thanks, that's exactly what I'm thinking about where to store this xid.

Here's v9 of the patch, it uses pd_prune_xid, but it is abstracted to 
GistPageGetDeleteXid() \ GistPageSetDeleteXid() so that we can change the way 
we store it easily.

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

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