Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > >> - Should indexes remember their fillfactors when they are created? > >> The last fillfactors will be used on next reindex. > > > They should remember, for sure, and REINDEX should use it. It think > > this is similar to the ALTER TABLE ALTER [ COLUMN ] ... SET STATISTICS > > functionality. It will need to be dumped as well by pg_dump. > > If you want it to be dumped by pg_dump (which is debatable IMHO) then > it MUST NOT be a syntax extension, it has to be driven by a GUC > variable, else we have compatibility problems with the dumps. We just > went through this with WITH/WITHOUT OIDS.
OK, so we are going to issue a GUC to set the fill factor in pg_dump, but still have a fillfactor syntax for use by users? That is how we do WITH/WITHOUT OIDS. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
