Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Andres Freund escribió:

I find it way much easier to believe such issues exist on a tables in constrast to indexes. The likelihood to get sequential accesses on an index is small enough on a big table to make it unlikely to matter much.

Vacuum walks indexes sequentially, for one.

That and index-based range scans were the main two use-cases I was concerned would be degraded by interleaving index builds, compared with doing them in succession. I work often with time-oriented apps that have heavy "give me every record between <a> and <b>" components to them, and good sequential index performance can be an important requirement for that kind of application.

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