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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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In case of many updates, set fillfactor on the table

If you often update only some tables and can arrange your query/queries so that you don't change any indexed fields, then setting fillfactor to a lower value than the default of 100 for those tables enables PostgreSQL to use Heap-Only Tuples (HOT) updates, which can be an order of magnitude faster than ordinary updates. HOT updates not only avoid creating new index entries, but can also perform a fast mini-vacuum inside the page to make room for new rows:

ALTER TABLE t1 SET (fillfactor = 70);

This tells PostgreSQL to fill only 70 percent of each page in table t1 when performing insertions, so that 30 percent is left for use by in-page (HOT) updates.

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