From: Peter Geoghegan Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:34:07 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Doc: Tweak description of B-Tree duplicate tuples. X-Git-Tag: REL_14_BETA1~2100 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=48c6959864491964ae3f893af8242d5770b3d3d2;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git Doc: Tweak description of B-Tree duplicate tuples. Defining duplicates as "close by" to each other was unclear. Simplify the definition. Backpatch: 13-, where deduplication was introduced (by commit 0d861bbb) --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/btree.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/btree.sgml index 661e7ab6503..4f1438d522d 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/btree.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/btree.sgml @@ -635,10 +635,10 @@ options(relopts local_relopts *) returns A duplicate is a leaf page tuple (a tuple that points to a table row) where all indexed key columns have values that match corresponding column values from at least one other leaf - page tuple that's close by in the same index. Duplicate tuples are - quite common in practice. B-Tree indexes can use a special, - space-efficient representation for duplicates when an optional - technique is enabled: deduplication. + page tuple in the same index. Duplicate tuples are quite common in + practice. B-Tree indexes can use a special, space-efficient + representation for duplicates when an optional technique is + enabled: deduplication. Deduplication works by periodically merging groups of duplicate