Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-07 Thread Kenneth Marshall
Bruce, Just to chime in. I also agree that fillfactor is useful. I have been investigating different index variants and different fill factors can greatly influence the performance of the index. I also think it may play a key role in minimizing the small table/ many inserts/updates performance pro

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Darren King
1:50 PM To: Rod Taylor Cc: Darren King; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL Development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 18:15, Rod Taylor wrote: > > At some point it would also be nice to be able to mark tables as > > read-only and then any indexes created on

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 18:15, Rod Taylor wrote: > > At some point it would also be nice to be able to mark tables as > > read-only and then any indexes created on that table after that would > > have a fillfactor of 100%. Then I'd be able to load the table, alter it > > to be read-only, then add th

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 17:59, Darren King wrote: > In my data warehousing situation, I'd like to be able to specify that > the indexes be as compact as possible (fillfactor = 100%) in order to > hit as few index pages as necessary. > Yes, that's my intent. > At some point it would also be nice to

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Rod Taylor
> At some point it would also be nice to be able to mark tables as > read-only and then any indexes created on that table after that would > have a fillfactor of 100%. Then I'd be able to load the table, alter it > to be read-only, then add the appropriate indexes that are automatically > compacte

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Darren King
-only, then add the appropriate indexes that are automatically compacted. Darren -Original Message- From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:19 PM To: Simon Riggs Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes Simon Riggs

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
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 y

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Simon Riggs
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%

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Added: * Add fillfactor to control reserved free space during index creation --- Kenneth Marshall wrote: > Bruce, > > Just to chime in. I also agree that fillfactor is useful. I have > been investigating

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Simon Riggs wrote: > > 4. Multiple column index statistics > > Allow accurate statistics to be collected on indexes that have more than > one column, so that they are more frequently selected for use. > > (following on from Manfred Koizar's exploratory patch to provide > this...) Added. --

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, I updated all your items. 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?

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Riggs wrote: > REF INTEGRITY > > ...Didn't we just get rid of deferred triggers?? Perhaps I read that > wrong. We got rid of deferred referential actions. Constraint check triggers for referential integrity (insert/update to fk table, NO ACTION on pk table) are still d

Re: [HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:31, Simon Riggs wrote: > A few minor typos/notes: > > INDEXES > > 1. On 2nd bullet... > "The main difficulty with this item is the problem of creating an index > that can spam more than one table." > > should be span, not spam > > 2. On 6th bullet > * "Use index to re

[HACKERS] Minor TODO list changes

2004-11-04 Thread Simon Riggs
A few minor typos/notes: INDEXES 1. On 2nd bullet... "The main difficulty with this item is the problem of creating an index that can spam more than one table." should be span, not spam 2. On 6th bullet * "Use index to restrict rows returned by multi-key index when used with non-consecuti