On 7/1/16 2:23 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> > The only
>> > cost of that is that vacuum will come along and mark the page
>> > all-visible again instead of skipping it, but that's probably not an
>> > enormous expense in most cases.
> I think the main cost is not having the page marked as all-visible for
> index-only purposes. If it's an insert mostly table, it can be a long
> while till vacuum comes around.
ISTM that's something that should be addressed anyway (and separately), no?
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