Kurt Roeckx schreef op vr 20-03-2020 om 22:50 [+0100]:
> Hi,
>
> I have a few tables that are append only. Thre are only gets insert
> and select queries, never update or delete.
Hallo Kurt,
i would use cstore in your case
(fdw for more efficient storage; it is columnar storage, append only
data)
https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
>
> What I see is that every file is still being updated. It's
> currently about 500 GB big, and every of that almost 500 files has
> been touched the past 24 hours.
>
> I assume that that the free space map is being used, and that it
> still finds places where it can insert a row in one of the files.
>
> (auto) vacuum is not happening on the table.
>
> Is there a way I can turn off this behaviour, and that it really
> only writes to the last few pages?
>
>
> Kurt
>
>
>
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