Re: [HACKERS] Index creation takes for ever - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Index creation takes for ever
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Msg-id 200403170137.i2H1bWA13193@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Index creation takes for ever  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Index creation takes for ever  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Where are we on this?   It seems like a win to me.
>
> I thought it was a bad idea, although I no longer remember the details.

If I remember correctly, you didn't like the index routines reading the
tuple information, or something like that, but there was a performance
benefit for duplicate keys, so I think we should re-investigate this.

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