On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 11:37 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron Johnson writes:
> > On an RDMS which I used in the 1990s and 2000s, b-tree indices of
> sequences
> > would get unbalanced, since every new leaf was added to the far right
> > corner of the tree.
> > Sure, they would auto-balance *to a
Ron Johnson writes:
> On an RDMS which I used in the 1990s and 2000s, b-tree indices of sequences
> would get unbalanced, since every new leaf was added to the far right
> corner of the tree.
> Sure, they would auto-balance *to a degree* during node splits, but all
> those "far-right corner"
On an RDMS which I used in the 1990s and 2000s, b-tree indices of sequences
would get unbalanced, since every new leaf was added to the far right
corner of the tree.
Sure, they would auto-balance *to a degree* during node splits, but all
those "far-right corner" inserts still left them pretty