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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2009-03-24 22:06:32 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2009-03-24 22:06:32 +0000 |
commit | 37e9992214442ac485eee31d05506d430a89019f (patch) | |
tree | 727b7977da2f69c838f02386bb19932fd3a5fcb5 /src/backend/access/gist/gist.c | |
parent | 98686e1ea142d88cc29eaea012047bb73f1ae5cd (diff) | |
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Install a search tree depth limit in GIN bulk-insert operations, to prevent
them from degrading badly when the input is sorted or nearly so. In this
scenario the tree is unbalanced to the point of becoming a mere linked list,
so insertions become O(N^2). The easiest and most safely back-patchable
solution is to stop growing the tree sooner, ie limit the growth of N. We
might later consider a rebalancing tree algorithm, but it's not clear that
the benefit would be worth the cost and complexity. Per report from Sergey
Burladyan and an earlier complaint from Heikki.
Back-patch to 8.2; older versions didn't have GIN indexes.
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