Hi, Antonin!
On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM Mihail Nikalayeu
<mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. Create an empty index.
> Yes, patch does exactly the same, introducing special lightweight AM -
> STIR (Short Term Index Replacement) to collect new tuples.
Initially understood incorrectly - in your solution you propose to use
a single index.
But STIR is used to collect new coming tuples, while the main index is
built using a batched way.
> To avoid insertions of tuples that concurrent transactions have just
> inserted, we'd need something like index.c:validate_index() (i.e. insert
> into the index only the tuples that it does not contain yet), but w/o
> snapshot because we already have the heap tuples collected.
And later main and STIR are merged.
Best regards,
Mikhail.