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From: Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 10:02:12 -0700
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Subject: Re: New Table Access Methods for Multi and Single Inserts
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, 
	Luc Vlaming <luc@swarm64.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, 
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Precedence: bulk

On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 9:31=E2=80=AFAM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. Finally, I  started to spend time on this. Just curious - may
> I know the discussion in/for which this patch is referenced? What was
> the motive? Is it captured somewhere?

It may not have been the only place, but we at least touched on it
during the unconference:

    https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgCon_2023_Developer_Unconference#Tabl=
e_AMs

We discussed two related-but-separate ideas:
1) bulk/batch operations and
2) maintenance of TAM state across multiple related operations.

--Jacob