Re: GIN improvements part2: fast scan

On 18.06.2013 23:59, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> I would like to illustrate that on example. Imagine you have fulltext query
> "rare_term&  frequent_term". Frequent term has large posting tree while
> rare term has only small posting list containing iptr1, iptr2 and iptr3. At
> first we get iptr1 from posting list of rare term, then we would like to
> check whether we have to scan part of frequent term posting tree where iptr
> <  iptr1. So we call pre_consistent([false, true]), because we know that
> rare term is not present for iptr<  iptr2. pre_consistent returns false. So
> we can start scanning frequent term posting tree from iptr1. Similarly we
> can skip lags between iptr1 and iptr2, iptr2 and iptr3, from iptr3 to
> maximum possible pointer.

Thanks, now I understand the rare-term & frequent-term problem. Couldn't 
you do that with the existing consistent function? I don't see why you 
need the new pre-consistent function for this.

- Heikki