Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> A small-footprint answer that just occurred to me is to redefine the
>> threshold as being, not NBuffers, but maintenance_work_mem. Then a
>> reasonably-sized test case could be made by reducing that to its minimum
>> allowed value. This seems like it'd be fairly unsurprising for users
>> since there's lots of precedent for maintenance_work_mem affecting the
>> behavior of CREATE INDEX.
> I like this idea. Should I write a patch?
Please.
regards, tom lane