Re: B-Heaps - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: B-Heaps
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Msg-id AANLkTik-81bRcl1tle10YvsdY1F6MwF4SFZErKOZa5LA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: B-Heaps  (Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org>)
Responses Re: B-Heaps  (Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org>)
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org> wrote:
> Absolutely, and I said in
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2010-03/msg00272.php
> but applied to the Postgres B-tree indexes instead of heaps.

This is an interesting idea.  I would guess that you could simulate
this to some degree by compiling PG with a larger block size.  Have
you tried this to see whether/how much/for what kind of workloads it
helps?

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Robert Haas
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