Re: B-Heaps

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>
Cc: Eliot Gable <egable+pgsql-performance(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: B-Heaps
Date: 2010-06-18 11:54:17
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org> wrote:
> Absolutely, and I said in
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2010-03/msg00272.php
> but applied to the Postgres B-tree indexes instead of heaps.

This is an interesting idea. I would guess that you could simulate
this to some degree by compiling PG with a larger block size. Have
you tried this to see whether/how much/for what kind of workloads it
helps?

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise Postgres Company

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