On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 15:36:58 -0500, Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isn't that still nlog(n)? In the end you're going to have read in every page > of the index including all those non-leaf pages. Aren't there nlog(n) pages?
The depth of the tree is log N, but there are only N nodes. I think you can treat the amount of information at each node as constant. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html