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Peter continues his frightening pace of amazing contributions to the #Postgres core.. 😳👏

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Jan 13, 2021

I committed bottom-up index deletion today, which is slated for Postgres 14. See postgresql.org/docs/devel/btr for a detailed description. In short: it makes index bloat/VACUUM issues much less likely to get out of hand. Updaters are now *required* to clean up indexes after themselves.

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I'm flattered. But I should demystify it: it seems like one continual project to me. I had one central good idea (maybe two) that really paid dividends over several years. I think that it could easily have been somebody else if they had been willing to bear the early risk.

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it’s the patient dedication and incremental improvements that matter, leading to snowballing effects. thanks for your efforts!

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I appreciate that, Mehboob. I agree that my weird fascination with continually improving the same "narrow" thing (by trying to find a new way to look at it) must have helped. That part really does seem to come naturally.

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This is not false modesty (nor is it sincere modesty). I just think that the path that I personally took is interesting and worth going into now. I strongly suspect that winning streaks in science and engineering generally work that way.