Teodor Sigaev <teo...@sigaev.ru> writes:
>> Here is a test case that crashes even with the patch:
> I was too optimistic :(
> Attached patch contains:
> - changes in R-tree picksplit methods. Now it checks bad ratio and if so then
> use simple split: one half of entries to one page, and another part - to
> another page.
> - protection from buggy picksplit method: GiST will emit an error if picksplit
> of first column has that bug. For second and next column it could be a
> desired
> behaviour, because picksplit may take in attention result of picksplit of
> previous column.
I don't like throwing an error there; I wish there were a way for the
generic code to apply the fallbackSplit code instead. I see that
in this particular formulation it's dependent on the datatype ---
can we get around that, by having it invoke the union method?
regards, tom lane
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