Re: [PATCH]-hash index improving

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Xiao Meng <mx(dot)cogito(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]-hash index improving
Date: 2008-07-18 13:42:23
Message-ID: 20080718134223.GA4042@alvh.no-ip.org
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Gregory Stark escribió:

> For cpu-bound databases with small indexes there might be a win if you can
> avoid the binary search of all the elements on a page. (Have we modified btree
> to do that or does it still scan sequentially on the leaf pages?)

Hmm? It has used binary search since as long as I can remember ... see
_bt_first and _bt_binsrch.

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