Re: GSoC proposal: Fast GiST index build

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Alexander Korotkov
<aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Project name
>> > Fast GiST index build
>>
>> Would/could/should this be implemented in a manner similar to the
>> existing "GIN fast update" feature?
>
> I've mentioned this problem in item #2 in project details. In short. Problem
> is in concurrent selects. Buffers size is significant and their scan in
> concurrent select can cause significant slow down. Probably, compromise can
> be achived by using for smaller buffers or something like this, but it's
> topic of separate research. It doesn't seems to be feasible for me to give a
> production solution of this problem during GSoC.

OK.  Could you briefly describe the algorithm you propose to
implement, bearing in mind that I haven't read the paper?

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