> 29 янв. 2019 г., в 7:32, Andreas Karlsson <andr...@proxel.se> написал(а):
> 
> On 1/28/19 7:26 PM, Andrey Borodin wrote:
>>> * I am no fan of the tupdesc vs truncTupdesc separation and think that it 
>>> is a potential hazard, but I do not have any better suggestion right now.
>> B-tree is copying tupdesc every time they truncate tuple. We need tuple 
>> truncation a little more often: when we are doing page split, we have to 
>> form all page tuples, truncated.
>> Initially, I've optimized only this case, but this led to prepared tupledesc 
>> for truncated tuples.
>>> 
>>> * There is no test case for exclusion constraints, and I feel since that is 
>>> one of the more important uses we should probably have at least one such 
>>> test case.
>> Actually, I did not understand this test case. Can you elaborate more on 
>> this? How included attributes should participate in exclude index? What for?
> 
> I mean include a table like below among the tests. I feel like this is a main 
> use case for INCLUDE.
> 
> CREATE TABLE t2 (
>  x int4range,
>  y int,
> 
>  EXCLUDE USING gist (x WITH &&) INCLUDE (y)
> );

Thanks for the explanation. Added this as case 6 to index_including_gist.

>>> * Why the random noise in the diff below? I think using "(c3) INCLUDE (c4)" 
>>> for both gist and rtree results in a cleaner patch.
>> I've used columns with and without opclass in INCLUDE. This led to these 
>> seemingly random changes.
> 
> I mean the diff would be smaller as the below. It also may make sense to make 
> both lines "(c3) INCLUDE (c1, c4)".
> 
> CREATE TABLE tbl (c1 int,c2 int, c3 box, c4 box);
> CREATE INDEX on tbl USING brin(c1, c2) INCLUDE (c3, c4);
> CREATE INDEX on tbl USING gist(c3) INCLUDE (c4);
> CREATE INDEX on tbl USING spgist(c3) INCLUDE (c4);
> CREATE INDEX on tbl USING gin(c1, c2) INCLUDE (c3, c4);
> CREATE INDEX on tbl USING hash(c1, c2) INCLUDE (c3, c4);
> -CREATE INDEX on tbl USING rtree(c1, c2) INCLUDE (c3, c4);
> +CREATE INDEX on tbl USING rtree(c3) INCLUDE (c4);
> CREATE INDEX on tbl USING btree(c1, c2) INCLUDE (c3, c4);
> 

I've took your version of this test and added all variations of included 
attributes.


PFA v7.

Thanks!

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

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