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-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsort.c2
-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsplitloc.c4
-rw-r--r--src/include/access/nbtree.h7
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsort.c b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsort.c
index e678690b18e..ab196920064 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsort.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsort.c
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ _bt_buildadd(BTWriteState *wstate, BTPageState *state, IndexTuple itup)
*
* We don't try to bias our choice of split point to make it more
* likely that _bt_truncate() can truncate away more attributes,
- * whereas the split point passed to _bt_split() is chosen much
+ * whereas the split point used within _bt_split() is chosen much
* more delicately. Suffix truncation is mostly useful because it
* improves space utilization for workloads with random
* insertions. It doesn't seem worthwhile to add logic for
diff --git a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsplitloc.c b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsplitloc.c
index a7882fd8742..1c1029b6c4d 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsplitloc.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsplitloc.c
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ _bt_split_penalty(FindSplitData *state, SplitPoint *split)
}
/*
- * Subroutine to get a lastleft IndexTuple for a spit point from page
+ * Subroutine to get a lastleft IndexTuple for a split point from page
*/
static inline IndexTuple
_bt_split_lastleft(FindSplitData *state, SplitPoint *split)
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ _bt_split_lastleft(FindSplitData *state, SplitPoint *split)
}
/*
- * Subroutine to get a firstright IndexTuple for a spit point from page
+ * Subroutine to get a firstright IndexTuple for a split point from page
*/
static inline IndexTuple
_bt_split_firstright(FindSplitData *state, SplitPoint *split)
diff --git a/src/include/access/nbtree.h b/src/include/access/nbtree.h
index 7e54c456f7d..52eafe6b000 100644
--- a/src/include/access/nbtree.h
+++ b/src/include/access/nbtree.h
@@ -406,8 +406,11 @@ typedef struct BTMetaPageData
* BTStackData -- As we descend a tree, we push the location of pivot
* tuples whose downlink we are about to follow onto a private stack. If
* we split a leaf, we use this stack to walk back up the tree and insert
- * data into its parent page at the correct location. We may also have to
- * recursively split a grandparent of the leaf page (and so on).
+ * data into its parent page at the correct location. We also have to
+ * recursively insert into the grandparent page if and when the parent page
+ * splits. Our private stack can become stale due to concurrent page
+ * splits and page deletions, but it should never give us an irredeemably
+ * bad picture.
*/
typedef struct BTStackData
{