On 8 September 2011 15:56, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi> wrote:
> Buffering GiST index build algorithm.
>
> When building a GiST index that doesn't fit in cache, buffers are attached
> to some internal nodes in the index. This speeds up the build by avoiding
> random I/O that would otherwise be needed to traverse all the way down the
> tree to the find right leaf page for tuple.
Sorry Heikki...
s/additionaly/additionally/
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