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Hi David Hildenbrand :),

On 2023/11/23 22:10, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Sorry to say, but why is that a scenario worth adding complexity for /
> optimizing for? You don't cover that, so there is a clear lack in the
> motivation.

Regarding your concern about complexity, this is indeed something to
consider. There is a precedent of parallelization in pgdata[1] which
might be reused (or other methods) to reduce the complexity of this
series.

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200527173608.2885243-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com/