Append only tables

From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt(at)roeckx(dot)be>
To: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Append only tables
Date: 2020-03-20 21:50:53
Message-ID: 20200320215053.GH22330@roeckx.be
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Hi,

I have a few tables that are append only. Thre are only gets insert
and select queries, never update or delete.

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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