Re: A couple thoughts about btree fillfactor - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From mark@mark.mielke.cc
Subject Re: A couple thoughts about btree fillfactor
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Msg-id 20060710192240.GA20314@mark.mielke.cc
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In response to A couple thoughts about btree fillfactor  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:17:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> mark@mark.mielke.cc writes:
> > ... Do you think there should be a way of packing certain
> > indexes tighter, once they are known to be mostly read only? For
> > example, an option on REINDEX? This would free PostgreSQL to use a
> > smaller fillfactor while still allowing people to optimize those of
> > their tables that would benefit from a higher fillfactor once they
> > become mostly static?
> Isn't it sufficient to change the fillfactor and REINDEX?

I've never tried that - if it works sure... :-)

Thanks,
mark

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