Re: GUC for default heap fillfactor

From: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GUC for default heap fillfactor
Date: 2007-08-09 14:53:24
Message-ID: 20070809145324.GM20424@nasby.net
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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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Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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