Re: Regarding GIN Fast Update Technique

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Regarding GIN Fast Update Technique
Date: 2013-06-07 14:39:31
Message-ID: 22686.1370615971@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Okay, aside from that case, what else would move those to the main
> structure? They (the entries in the unsorted pending list) are in the
> local memory (work_mem?) of the backend, right?

No. If they were, it wouldn't be crash-safe.

regards, tom lane

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