> Hmm, you realise Alvaro is working on MinMax indexes in this release? > They are very efficient with regard to index inserts and specially > designed for use on large tables. > > Prior work by Heikki on Grouped Item Tuples was a way of reducing the > size of indexes, yet still allowing uniqueness checks. That is > implemented in SQLServer already and is very useful.
Reading the implementation of those features, I don't think they can help in the cases handled by the index types I mentioned (insertions of random values in big tables). -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
