Re: COPY Fillfactor patch

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Subject: Re: COPY Fillfactor patch
Date: 2005-04-20 13:51:30
Message-ID: 200504201351.j3KDpUZ03265@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 09:03 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> My guess is that the FILLFACTOR will actually be a GUC variable rather
> >> than a clause to CREATE INDEX or REINDEX or CLUSTER.
>
> > I hope not, but it would be easier to set like that and a lot easier to
> > code up that way.
>
> I don't like that either. It seems highly unlikely that every table in
> a database would need the same fillfactor. It should be a per-table
> attribute, maybe with a DB-wide default, much like we handle per-column
> statistics targets.

That is fine. I just don't want to add the FILLFACTOR clause to several
commands.

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