> How about having a constant sized "fastupdate" buffer, of say 100 rows
> or a fixed number of pages, and when that becomes full, the next
> inserter will have to pay the price of updating the index and flushing
I'm not sure that is acceptable because flushing pending list may take several
seconds in unpredictable moment.
> the buffer. To keep that overhead out of the main codepath, we could
> make autovacuum to flush the buffers periodically.
Do you mean that GIN sends a "smoke signal" to the autovacuum launcher process
to ask about vacuum?
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