Re: Minor TODO list changes

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 16:51, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > OK, I updated all your items.
>
> Thanks
>
> > I removed fillfactor because I thought I
> > was the only one who thought it was valuable and as I remember it was
> > mostly useful for ISAM, which we don't support. Can you think of a use
> > for a non-100% fillfactor?
> >
>
> I was under the impression the factor was 67% for data loaded on the
> leading-edge of an index, and 50% for other INSERTs.
> (backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c)
>
> Not sure, without checking, what CREATE INDEX and COPY do, but I'm
> guessing it is similar?
>
> Other RDBMS use a higher leading-edge/standard fill factor.
>
> There are situations where I'd want to set it at 90%, or even 100%. If I
> know the update rate is likely to be zero, then I'd like my indexes to
> fit in 10-30% less memory and disk, please.
>
> Or am I missing something?

Oh, good point. I was thinking of just the leaf pages which I think are
100% filled.

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