Re: Fast insertion indexes: why no developments

Jeff Janes wrote
> The index insertions should be fast until the size of the active part of
> the indexes being inserted into exceeds shared_buffers by some amount
> (what
> that amount is would depend on how much dirty data the kernel is willing
> to
> allow in the page cache before it starts suffering anxiety about it). If
> you have enough shared_buffers to make that last for 15 minutes, then you
> shouldn't have a problem inserting with live indexes.

Sooner or later you'll have to checkpoint those shared_buffers... and we are
talking about GB of data (my understanding is that we change basically every
btree page, resulting in re-writing of the whole index).

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