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| 15 | 15 |           of data blocks (<literal>pages</literal>) on physical storage in order to | 
| 16 | 16 |           organize data searches on ranges of summarized data that can be easily skipped | 
| 17 | 17 |           on the base of search filters (see <ulink | 
| 18 |  | -          url="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/brin-intro.html"><citetitle> | 
|  | 18 | +          url="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/brin-intro.html"><citetitle> | 
| 19 | 19 |           PostgreSQL documentation</citetitle></ulink> for further details on BRINs). | 
| 20 | 20 |           As a consequence, BRINs result to be really small indexes (up to 1000 times | 
| 21 | 21 |           than GiST ones), generally with lower a performance compared with a GiST one, | 
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| 90 | 90 | <![CDATA[CREATE INDEX test_pos_idx USING BRIN ON test (pos);]]> | 
| 91 | 91 |           </programlisting> | 
| 92 | 92 |           <para> | 
| 93 |  | -            By default, BRINs summarize block of 128 pages. The lower numbers | 
| 94 |  | -            of pages are specified, the higher granularity is reached during | 
| 95 |  | -            the searches, and performance's gap between GiST indexes and BRINs | 
| 96 |  | -            is lower (consider that BRINs size increases as well). Different | 
| 97 |  | -            summarizations can be used with the following command: | 
|  | 93 | +            By default, BRINs summarize blocks of 128 pages. The smaller the | 
|  | 94 | +            number of pages specified, the higher the granularity in searches, | 
|  | 95 | +            and the gap in performance between GiST indexes and BRINs will be | 
|  | 96 | +            decreased. Note that the size of the BRINs increases as well. | 
|  | 97 | +            Different summarizations can be specified with the following | 
|  | 98 | +            command: | 
| 98 | 99 |           </para> | 
| 99 | 100 |           <programlisting> | 
| 100 | 101 | <![CDATA[CREATE INDEX test_pos_idx USING BRIN ON test (pos) WITH (pages_per_range = 16);]]> | 
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