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by gcb0 3823 days ago
search in 5% the time it would take to search a btree? anyone can see that with actual data?
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http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/119568339102/block-ra...

the very first example points to BRIN indexes resulting in smaller index than btree but with much longer search time... so i guess the 5% time figure was very use-case specific?