Re: Hot Issue - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: Hot Issue
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Msg-id 36e682920807020721s3e537ef8k3189c8ce3b47e6c7@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Hot Issue  ("Gauri Kanekar" <meetgaurikanekar@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Hot Issue  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Gauri Kanekar
<meetgaurikanekar@gmail.com> wrote:
> ok.. But we have set fill_factor = 80 for all the indexes on table1.

You need fill factor for the heap table, not the index.

> Is there a way to check if the page is fill and the update is going on a new
> page ??

IIRC, I don't think so.  I think you'd have to u se something like
pg_filedump to see if you have rows migrated to other blocks due to
updates.

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