On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Teodor Sigaev <teo...@sigaev.ru> writes: >>> What did you think of the idea of simply abandoning support for >>> conventional indexscans in GIN? > >> I don't like this idea because it forbids conventional indexscans even with >> fastupdate=off. > > So? Barring some evidence that there's a significant performance win > from a conventional indexscan, this is a weak argument. AFAICS the only > significant advantage of the conventional API is to support ordered > scans, and GIN doesn't do that anyway.
Wouldn't it force you to recheck all tuples on the page, instead of just rechecking the one of interest? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
