Re: Maintaining cluster order on insert

On 5/16/07, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > What about adding the ability to ask the FSM for a page that's near a
> > given page? That way if you did have to go to the FSM you could at least
> > try and insert close to the page you originally wanted.
>
> Yeah, there's always room for improvement. I made the patch when I was
> working on clustered indexes, and was mostly concerned about getting
> inserts to the same page as other tuples with similar values so that the
> clustered index stays clustered.
>

the patch doesn't apply in cvs... you'll need to update it...

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