Re: Maintaining cluster order on insert

On 5/17/07, Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 5/16/07, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)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...
>

cvs i wrote? head i was meaning... sorry, too late for me =)

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