Re: Btree Index on PostgreSQL and Wiredtiger (MongoDB3.2)

From: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>
Cc: kskim(at)bitnine(dot)net, Lukas Fittl <lukas(at)fittl(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Btree Index on PostgreSQL and Wiredtiger (MongoDB3.2)
Date: 2016-08-12 17:44:53
Message-ID: CAMkU=1w0BHPgJ65uZ=TBGkUJ=h-61vEcyLN3Etk6qJKEiEWaGQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Mark Kirkwood
<mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz> wrote:
> After examining the benchmark design - I see we are probably not being
> helped by the repeated insertion of keys all of form 'userxxxxxxx' leading
> to some page splitting.

But shouldn't that still leave us with a 75% full index, rather than
slightly over 50% full?

The leaf pages start at 50%, grow to 100%, then split back to 50%,
then grow back to 100%. So the average should be about 75%.

> However your index rebuild gets you from 5 to 3 GB - does that really help
> performance significantly?

It can make a big difference, depending on how much RAM you have.

Cheers,

Jeff

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