Re: [HACKERS] GSoC 2017: weekly progress reports (week 7)

2017-07-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Shubham Barai wrote: > I had detailed discussion about this with my mentor. Sorry, I didn't share > details on hackers list. > > B-tree, gist, spgist, and gin are all tree based indexes where we scan and > acquire predicate lock > on only some and not all internal

Re: [HACKERS] GSoC 2017: weekly progress reports (week 7)

2017-07-20 Thread Shubham Barai
Hi Robert, I had detailed discussion about this with my mentor. Sorry, I didn't share details on hackers list. B-tree, gist, spgist, and gin are all tree based indexes where we scan and acquire predicate lock on only some and not all internal pages or leaf pages. So, here we have scope to reduce

Re: [HACKERS] GSoC 2017: weekly progress reports (week 7)

2017-07-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Shubham Barai wrote: > During this week, I read documentation and source code of BRIN index to > understand its implementation. > But later I found out that it is unlikely to implement page level or tuple > level predicate locking in BRIN index. > In this week, I

[HACKERS] GSoC 2017: weekly progress reports (week 7)

2017-07-18 Thread Shubham Barai
Project: Explicitly support predicate locks in index AMs besides b-tree Hi, During this week, I read documentation and source code of BRIN index to understand its implementation. But later I found out that it is unlikely to implement page level or tuple level predicate locking in BRIN index. In t