Re: [HACKERS] Fast GiST index build - further improvements

2012-02-02 Thread Alexander Korotkov
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: Now that the main GiST index build patch has been committed, there's a few further improvements that could make it much faster still: Better management of the buffer pages on disk. At the moment,

[HACKERS] Fast GiST index build - further improvements

2011-09-08 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Now that the main GiST index build patch has been committed, there's a few further improvements that could make it much faster still: Better management of the buffer pages on disk. At the moment, the temporary file is used as a heap of pages belonging to all the buffers in random order. I