Re: Block B-Tree concept

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> define "consecutive".

> I don't mean consecutive as in "1, 2, 3, 4, ... without gaps" but as in 
> "A and B are consecutive in the index, if there's no value X in the 
> index so that A < X < B". Maybe there's a better word for that.

Um, but how are you going to make that work without storing the keys for
both A and B?  You won't be able to tell whether an incoming key C
that's just a bit bigger than A should go before or after B.
        regards, tom lane