Re: Is it possible to have a "fast-write" Index?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:01 PM, deavid <deavidsedice(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> By now, my results were a bit disappointing: (comparing gin_btree against
> regular btree for a column with very low cardinality)
> - create index and updates: about 10-20% faster (i had a primary key, so
> btree unique checks may be here blurring the results)

That could be the effect of GIN's buffering (lets call it LSM? it's similar)

So that with pure btrees could get a similar speedup.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:01 PM, deavid <deavidsedice(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> What i've found is, I was wrong on fillfactor. (Maybe something has changed
> here since postgresql 8.1). I believed a fillfactor lower than 80 will do
> more harm than good. At least that was the case 5 years ago. Now I could get
> a noticeable speedup with fillfactor=50 in the case of updating the whole
> table.

8.1 didn't have HOT. I'd bet it's that.