On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:17:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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> > ... Do you think there should be a way of packing certain
> > indexes tighter, once they are known to be mostly read only? For
> > example, an option on REINDEX? This would free PostgreSQL to use a
> > smaller fillfactor while still allowing people to optimize those of
> > their tables that would benefit from a higher fillfactor once they
> > become mostly static?
> Isn't it sufficient to change the fillfactor and REINDEX?
I've never tried that - if it works sure... :-)
Thanks,
mark
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