Re: performance problems with bulk inserts/updates on tsrange with gist-based exclude constrains

On 9/16/2016 3:46 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
>>
>> when you do updates, are you changing any of the indexed fields, or
>> just "value" ?
> Yeah, it's a temporal table, so "updates" involve modifying the period
> column for a row to set its end ts, and then inserting a new row with
> a start ts running on from that.

thats expensive, as it has to reindex that row. and range indexes are
more expensive than timestamp indexes

modifiyng the primary key is kind of a violation of one of the basic
rules of relational databases as it means the row can't be referenced by
another table.

I expect the expensive one is the constraint that ensures no periods
overlap for the given key. I'm not sure how that can be done short of
a full scan for each update/insert. it might actually perform better
if you write the index with the key first as presumably the key is
invariant ?

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