Add support for sorted gist index builds to btree_gist
authorHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Thu, 3 Apr 2025 10:46:35 +0000 (13:46 +0300)
committerHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Thu, 3 Apr 2025 10:46:35 +0000 (13:46 +0300)
commite4309f73f698851a2f7d49ca5e98e3e188400891
tree7ebe9c998f9778f246baacb5776d98bba968313f
parent9370978da8ac8f0e31867859282b0f2be724fe48
Add support for sorted gist index builds to btree_gist

This enables sortsupport in the btree_gist extension for faster builds
of gist indexes.

Sorted gist index build strategy is the new default now. Regression
tests are unchanged (except for one small change in the 'enum' test to
add coverage for enum values added later) and are using the sorted
build strategy instead.

One version of this was committed a long time ago already, in commit
9f984ba6d2, but it was quickly reverted because of buildfarm
failures. The failures were presumably caused by some small bugs, but
we never got around to debug and commit it again. This patch was
written from scratch, implementing the same idea, with some fragments
and ideas from the original patch.

Author: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Author: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/64d324ce2a6d535d3f0f3baeeea7b25beff82ce4.camel@oopsware.de
29 files changed:
contrib/btree_gist/Makefile
contrib/btree_gist/btree_bit.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_bool.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_bytea.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_cash.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_date.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_enum.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_float4.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_float8.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_gist--1.8--1.9.sql [new file with mode: 0644]
contrib/btree_gist/btree_gist.control
contrib/btree_gist/btree_inet.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_int2.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_int4.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_int8.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_interval.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_macaddr.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_macaddr8.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_numeric.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_oid.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_text.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_time.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_ts.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_utils_var.h
contrib/btree_gist/btree_uuid.c
contrib/btree_gist/expected/enum.out
contrib/btree_gist/meson.build
contrib/btree_gist/sql/enum.sql
doc/src/sgml/btree-gist.sgml