Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> define "consecutive".
> I don't mean consecutive as in "1, 2, 3, 4, ... without gaps" but as in
> "A and B are consecutive in the index, if there's no value X in the
> index so that A < X < B". Maybe there's a better word for that.
Um, but how are you going to make that work without storing the keys for
both A and B? You won't be able to tell whether an incoming key C
that's just a bit bigger than A should go before or after B.
regards, tom lane