pgsql: Remove the 'slow' path for btree index build, which built the

Started by Tom Laneover 20 years ago1 messagescomitters
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#1Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

Log Message:
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Remove the 'slow' path for btree index build, which built the btree
incrementally by successive inserts rather than by sorting the data.
We were only using the slow path during bootstrap, apparently because
when first written it failed during bootstrap --- but it works fine now
AFAICT. Removing it saves a hundred or so lines of code and produces
noticeably (~10%) smaller initial states of the system catalog indexes.
While that won't make much difference for heavily-modified catalogs,
for the more static ones there may be a useful long-term performance
improvement.

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree:
nbtpage.c (r1.94 -> r1.95)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtpage.c.diff?r1=1.94&r2=1.95)
nbtree.c (r1.143 -> r1.144)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtree.c.diff?r1=1.143&r2=1.144)
nbtxlog.c (r1.30 -> r1.31)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtxlog.c.diff?r1=1.30&r2=1.31)
pgsql/src/include/access:
nbtree.h (r1.94 -> r1.95)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/access/nbtree.h.diff?r1=1.94&r2=1.95)