Simon Riggs wrote
> From our discussions here, IMHO there is a strong case for avoiding
> btrees completely for larger historical data tables. That isn't
> something I had even considered as desirable before this conversation
> but ISTM now that taking that approach will be more fruitful than
> attempting to implement LSM trees.
Eh? I don't understand this point. How can I avoid btrees, and
searching by caller_id? I don't get it...
Simon Riggs wrote
> Alvaro has given me some results for his patch. The figures I have are
> for a 2GB table.
>
> Index Build Time
> MinMax 11 s
> Btree 96s
>
> Index Size
> MinMax 2 pages + metapage
> Btree approx 200,000 pages + metapage
>
> Load time
> MinMax no overhead, same as raw COPY
> BTree - considerably slower
Great!!! This looks very promising. Were the values indexed
sequential?
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