Ron Mayer wrote:
Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On usage, ISTM it would be better to turn on GIT only for a clustered
index and not the PK? I'm guessing your automatic case is intended for
SERIAL PKs, but maybe it would be better to just make that explicit.

Not necessarily; since often (in my tables at least) the data for
come columns has some local grouping of similar values even though
it's not the clustered index.

Yes, there's a lot of cases like that.

My real goal is to make it cheap enough in the case where there is no clustering, that we could just enable it on all indexes by default. At the moment, it looks like it's indeed near-zero cost when the table is in random order, but the CPU overhead is too great in many workloads to have it always enabled. More autotuning logic would be needed, or a significant reduction in overhead.

But as it is, you can always turn it on explicitly if you think it'd help.

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  Heikki Linnakangas
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