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Old 04-11-2008, 08:52 AM
Tom Lane
 
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Default Re: TODO-Item: B-tree fillfactor control

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.

regards, tom lane

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