> Reiner Dassing <dassing@wettzell.ifag.de> writes:
> > The primary index must be the epoch.
> > As there will be no deletion from this data I fear - due to the
> > internal representation of B-trees - the performance will degrade very
> > soon.
>
> Nonsense. btree should work just fine for that. Use a timestamp
> column for the primary key, and away you go.
>
> (Actually, time alone doesn't seem like it'd be necessarily unique,
> so maybe you don't want to call it a primary key. But certainly
> you can make a non-unique index on that column.)
I assume the user is concerned about non-balanced btrees. Ours are
auto-balancing.
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