Re: GIN improvements

> How about having a constant sized "fastupdate" buffer, of say 100 rows 
> or a fixed number of pages, and when that becomes full, the next 
> inserter will have to pay the price of updating the index and flushing 

I'm not sure that is acceptable because flushing pending list may take several 
seconds in unpredictable moment.

> the buffer. To keep that overhead out of the main codepath, we could 
> make autovacuum to flush the buffers periodically.

Do you mean that GIN sends a "smoke signal" to the autovacuum launcher process 
to ask about vacuum?

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