On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Alexander Korotkov
<aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gist picksplit method implementation in cube contrib module contains a bug
> in Guttman's split algorithm implementation. It was mentioned before but it
> is still not fixed yet. Current implementation doesn't cause incorrect
> behavior, but index becomes very bad, because each index scan require to
> read significant part of index.
It looks to me like this can be safely back-patched, because it
doesn't affect the contents of index entries already on disk, just the
manner in which we construct new ones.
So I've committed this and back-patched it all the way back to 8.1.
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