Thanks so much for the clarification.
Azad
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>wrote:
> Azad Bolour wrote:
> > Does the postgres implementation of btrees shrink the index if adjacent
> > index tree nodes can be combined?
>
> No. Completely empty pages are collected as free space for later use,
> but partially-empty pages are not merged.
>
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