On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:57:48AM +0900, ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
> > If HOT gets into 8.3, we might need a GUC to set database wide heap
> > fillfactor to an appropriate value.
>
> I have no objection to do that, but we will need other default values soon,
> something like default_[heap|btree|hash|gist|gin]_fillfactor. Some of us
> might feel it is mess to add random guc variables.
I think we'd want to handle indexes with a different mechanism, probably
one that makes changes to pg_am.
In any case, how important is it to do this before 8.3? We were supposed
to release this month, after all.
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