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