Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> OK, I'll think about how to do that more efficiently. The smaller
>> incremental improvement isn't surprising, because in this example the
>> index would still be 90-something MB if it had no free space at all,
>> so there's going to be decreasing returns from any additional work
>> to avoid wasted free space. But if we can do it cheaply, this does
>> suggest that using pages in order by free space is of value.
> Tom, are you planning to do something about this patch yet this
> CommitFest, or leave it until later?
I doubt I will get to it this week, so let's mark it RWF for this fest.
regards, tom lane