Glen Parker escribió:
> That's two people now who have called the idea "silly" without even a
> hint of a supporting argument. Why would it be "silly" to improve the
> performance of a highly valuable tool set without compromising its
> utility? Am I missing something here? That's certainly possible, but
> the idea didn't just hatch last night; I've put enough thought into this
> to have reason to believe it's more than just "silly".
FWIW I don't think this idea is silly at all. It's so not-silly, in
fact, that we already have some access methods that do this if an index
cannot be recovered (I think at least GiST does it).
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