On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:00 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Yeah, I saw that in the commit message, but didn't really think that > the release note entry needed to explain it that way. Could be > argued differently though.
I'm pretty confident that somebody is going to miss this functionality, if this account of how the patch helped Yandex is anything to go by: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7B44397E-5E0A-462F-8148-1C444640FA0B%40simply.name > > We may even need to revise the v10 release notes. > > Perhaps just remove that item from the 10.0 notes? The wording could be changed to reflect the current reality within GIN. It's still useful that posting trees are only locked when there are pages to be deleted. -- Peter Geoghegan