Re: Physical append-only tables

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 08:43:12PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> That said, I don't think the "maintain clustering a bit better using
> BRIN" is a bad idea. It's just the bit about turning a table
> append-only to deal with update-once data that I think is overreach.

What if we used BRIN to find heap pages where the new row was in the
page BRIN min/max range, and the heap page had free space.  Only if that
fails do we put is somewhere else in the heap.

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