On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Qingqing Zhou
<zhouqq.postg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> So I really doubt that anyone would have any enthusiasm for saddling btree
>> with a similar mechanism.  It's complicated (and has been the cause of
>> multiple bugs); it's hard to figure out when is the optimal time to flush
>> the pending insertions; and it slows down searches in favor of making
>> inserts cheap, which is generally not the way to bet --- if that's the
>> tradeoff you want, why not drop the index altogether?
>
> Hint bits update is also painful in above case, but it is out of the topic 
> here.

Are your records spread out around many transactions or so you tend to
have large batches all with the same xid?

merlin


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