Re: Multiple FPI_FOR_HINT for the same block during killing btreeindex items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Multiple FPI_FOR_HINT for the same block during killing btreeindex items
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In response to Re: Multiple FPI_FOR_HINT for the same block during killing btreeindex items  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
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On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 5:25 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> Was this a low cardinality index in the way I describe? If it was,
> then we can hope (and maybe even verify) that the Postgres 12 work
> noticeably ameliorates the problem.

What I really meant was an index where hundreds or even thousands of
rows for each distinct timestamp value are expected. Not an index
where almost every row has a distinct timestamp value. Both timestamp
index patterns are common, obviously.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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