Re: [HACKERS] Index creation takes for ever

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Index creation takes for ever
Date: 2004-03-17 01:37:32
Message-ID: 200403170137.i2H1bWA13193@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Where are we on this? It seems like a win to me.
>
> I thought it was a bad idea, although I no longer remember the details.

If I remember correctly, you didn't like the index routines reading the
tuple information, or something like that, but there was a performance
benefit for duplicate keys, so I think we should re-investigate this.

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