Tom Lane wrote:
> One place that I've always wanted to look at was suppressing the
> creation of a btree metapage until there's some useful data in the
> table. We managed to avoid creating a root page until there's data,
> but at the time avoiding the metapage seemed too invasive. (Admittedly,
> though, if one assumes that your real world case does involve putting
> some data in the tables, this wouldn't actually save anything...)
Agreed on the parenthised comment -- it'd be just benchmark
optimization.
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