Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
> I know I have other options, and possibly better, but I was trying to
> understand what happens with gin indexes, just that.
GIN does have a "pending list" of insertions not yet pushed into the main
index structure, and search performance will suffer if that gets too
bloated. I don't recall much about how to control that, but I think
vacuuming the table will serve to empty the pending list. Also see
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/gin-implementation.html#GIN-FAST-UPDATE
regards, tom lane