Re: Faster inserts with mostly-monotonically increasing values

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:27 PM, Pavan Deolasee
<pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> I would probably just have a few regression lines that should be sure
>> to exercise the code path and leave it at that.
>>
>
> I changed the regression tests to include a few more scenarios, basically
> using multi-column indexes in different ways and they querying rows by
> ordering rows in different ways. I did not take away the vacuum and I
> believe it will actually help the tests by introducing some fuzziness in the
> tests i.e. if the vacuum does not do its job, we might execute a different
> plan and ensure that the output remains unchanged.
>


If we're going to keep the vacuums in there, do we need to add a wait
barrier like Claudio suggested upthread?

Once we decide on that I propose to commit this.

cheers

andrew

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