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>   Building large GiST indexes by simply inserting all the tuples tends to be
   slow, because if the index tuples are scattered across the index and the
   index is large enough to not fit in cache, the insertions need to perform
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   efficient method to build GiST indexes based on buffering, which can
   dramatically reduce the number of random I/Os needed for non-ordered data
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>   However, buffering index build needs to call the <CODE
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   function more often, which consumes some extra CPU resources. Also, the
   buffers used in the buffering build need temporary disk space, up to
   the size of the resulting index. Buffering can also influence the quality
   of the resulting index, in both positive and negative directions. That
   influence depends on various factors, like the distribution of the input
   data and the operator class implementation.
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>   By default, a GiST index build switches to the buffering method when the
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