Re: Relation extension scalability

On 24/03/16 07:04, Dilip Kumar wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com
> <mailto:robertmhaas@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Amit Kapila
>     <amit.kapila16@gmail.com <mailto:amit.kapila16@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > RecordAndGetPageWithFreeSpace() tries to search from the oldPage passed to
>     > it, rather than from top, so even if  RecordPageWithFreeSpace() doesn't
>     > update till root, it will be able to search the newly added page.  I agree
>     > with whatever you have said in another mail that we should introduce a new
>     > API to do a more targeted search for such cases.
>
>     OK, let's do that, then.
>
>
> Ok, I have added new API which just find the free block from and start
> search from last given page.
>
> 1. I have named the new function as GetPageWithFreeSpaceUsingOldPage, I
> don't like this name, but I could not come up with any better, Please
> suggest one.
>

GetNearestPageWithFreeSpace? (although not sure that's accurate 
description, maybe Nearby would be better)

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