> so you can avoid lock contention around the single latest index page. That is usually the total opposite of what you want. There are some optimizations for i

> so you can avoid lock contention around the single latest index page. That is usually the total opposite of what you want. There are some optimizations for inserting to the last page but primarily it is because you want to to sequential inserts. So if you want to avoid contention on the last page you should insert ordered by (connection ID, sequential ID or high resolution timestamp). That way every connection will do sequential inserts on its own page.