On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote:

>
> I came up with the attached, for GIN and SP-GiST. Instead of WAL-logging
> the page initialization in SP-GiST vacuum, I changed it so that it simply
> leaves the page as all-zeroes, and adds it to the FSM. The code that grabs
> a target page from the FSM handles that, and initializes the page anyway,
> so that was simpler. This made the SP-GiST is-deleted flag obsolete, it's
> no longer set, although the code still checks for it for
> backwards-compatibility. (even that may actually be unnecessary, as a page
> that's marked as deleted must also be empty, and wherever we check for the
> deleted-flag, we also check for PageIsEmpty()))


This patch, in conjunction with the LWLock deadlock patch, fixes all the
issues I was having with GIN indexes in 9.5.

I haven't tried SP-GiST.

Cheers,

Jeff

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