On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Leonardo Francalanci <m_lists@yahoo.it> wrote:
> Jeff Janes wrote
>> Some experiments I did a few years ago showed that applying sorts to the
>> data to be inserted could be helpful even when the sort batch size was as
>> small as one tuple per 5 pages of existing index. Maybe even less.
>
> Cool!!! Do you have any idea/hint on how I could try and replicate that?
> Do you remember how you did it?
I do it regularly by sorting tuples before inserting/updating. It
helps quite significantly for batches of ~1000 tuples (well, in my
case).
