On 29 October 2013 16:10, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Leonardo Francalanci <m_lists@yahoo.it> wrote:
>> I don't see much interest in insert-efficient indexes.
>
> Presumably someone will get around to implementing a btree index
> insertion buffer one day. I think that would be a particularly
> compelling optimization for us, because we could avoid ever inserting
> index tuples that are already dead when the deferred insertion
> actually occurs.
That's pretty much what the LSM-tree is.
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