Re: Small patch for GiST: move childoffnum to child

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Small patch for GiST: move childoffnum to child
Date: 2011-07-15 09:27:40
Message-ID: 4E20080C.7040806@enterprisedb.com
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On 13.07.2011 22:04, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 13.07.2011 21:56, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
>> Thank you very much for detail explanation. But this line of modified
>> patch
>> seems strange for me:
>> *newchildoffnum = blkno;
>> I believe it should be:
>> *newchildoffnum = i;
>
> Yes, you're right. It's scary that it worked during testing anyway.
> Maybe the resulting tree was indeed broken but it didn't affect the
> subsequent inserts so I didn't notice.

Ok, committed this now. I decided to rename the childoffnum field to
"downlinkoffnum". I figured it'd be dangerous that the field means
something subtly different in different versions, if we need to
backpatch bug fixes that use that field.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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