Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> What about adding the ability to ask the FSM for a page that's near a
> given page? That way if you did have to go to the FSM you could at least
> try and insert close to the page you originally wanted.
Yeah, there's always room for improvement. I made the patch when I was
working on clustered indexes, and was mostly concerned about getting
inserts to the same page as other tuples with similar values so that the
clustered index stays clustered.
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