Re: GIN pending list pages not recycled promptly (was Re: [HACKERS] GIN improvements part 1: additional information)

2014-06-18 Thread Amit Langote
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 01/22/2014 03:39 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote: >> >> What annoys me a bit is the huge size difference between the index >> updated incrementally (by a sequence of INSERT commands), and the index >> rebuilt from scratch using VACUUM FULL. It

Re: GIN pending list pages not recycled promptly (was Re: [HACKERS] GIN improvements part 1: additional information)

2014-01-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > I wrote a little utility that scans all pages in a gin index, and > prints out the flags indicating what kind of a page it is. The > distribution looks like this: > > 19 DATA >7420 DATA LEAF > 24701 DELETED > 1 LEAF > 1 META Hah. > I think we n

GIN pending list pages not recycled promptly (was Re: [HACKERS] GIN improvements part 1: additional information)

2014-01-22 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 01/22/2014 03:39 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote: What annoys me a bit is the huge size difference between the index updated incrementally (by a sequence of INSERT commands), and the index rebuilt from scratch using VACUUM FULL. It's a bit better with the patch (2288 vs. 2035 MB), but is there a chance