Re: Should heapam_estimate_rel_size consider fillfactor?

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should heapam_estimate_rel_size consider fillfactor?
Date: 2025-02-18 12:01:55
Message-ID: ac3735e0-8211-4a7b-a96c-912f80698a5e@vondra.me
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On 2/4/25 17:54, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> On 2/4/25 16:02, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> Thanks for the report. And yeah, clamping it to 1 seems like the right
>> fix for this. I wonder if it's worth inventing some sort of test for
>> this, shouldn't be too hard I guess.
>>
>> In any case, I'll take care of the fix/backpatch soon.
>>
>
> Here's a proposed fix, including a simple test in the stats suite.
>

Here's a slightly improved fix, with a proper commit message and
simplified test case. I plan to push this once the releases get out (I
know it was stamped already, but ...).

regards

--
Tomas Vondra

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0001-Correct-relation-size-estimate-with-low-fillfactor.patch text/x-patch 3.9 KB

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