Re: Killing dead index tuples before they get vacuumed

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com> writes:
> >     Also,  in  btree haven't we had some problems with index page
> >     splits when using entries large enought so that not at  least
> >     3 of them fit on a page?
>
> Right, that's why I said that the limit would only go up to ~10K anyway;
> btree won't take keys > 1/3 page.
   What's the point then? I mean, someone who needs more than 8K   will outgrow 10K in no time, and those cases are
topics for   comp.databases.abuse.brutal ...
 


Jan

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