Re: Index Partition Size Double of its Table Partition? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Don Seiler
Subject Re: Index Partition Size Double of its Table Partition?
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In response to Re: Index Partition Size Double of its Table Partition?  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 10:35 AM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 11:24 AM Don Seiler <don@seiler.us> wrote:
> One thing worth mentioning is that the table is 4 columns, the index is on two of them and includes the other two. I can't think of an explanation for the index being so much larger than its table, especially compared to last month's index.
>
> Curious if anyone has any thoughts on what might be causing this.

You mentioned that this has 4 columns. Sounds like this could be a
"locally monotonically increasing index". I wonder if you're
benefiting from this optimization, though only inconsistently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RaATILoiE&t=2079s
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=f21668f3

Of course, this is only a guess. I vaguely recall a complaint that
sounded vaguely like yours, also involving partitioning.

Thanks Peter, I'll look into that shortly.

I should have also included that this is on PG 15 (currently 15.8 but we created the indexes when it was still 15.7) on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Don.

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