A GIN index internals question

From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: A GIN index internals question
Date: 2013-12-27 07:22:21
Message-ID: CA+HiwqEVscDrooYriH4HtKoSLW=Pf-AxxjeTOeUzndJ6QPKd_A@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

Can a posting item / ItemPointer belonging to posting list/tree of
some entry "stored" in a GIN index be "lossy"? If yes, under what
circumstances would such a lossy ItemPointer be included for the
entry?

I got an impression that there may be some lossy ItemPointers stored
in a GIN index while reading keyGetItem() code in
src/backend/access/gin/ginget.c

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Amit

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