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From: Corey Huinker <[email protected]>
To: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Should heapam_estimate_rel_size consider fillfactor?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:41:37 -0400
Message-ID: <CADkLM=eSFK2dD8sR7gf7WP3WeS25yvCwWHPEqGmXfRu50HRQkA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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>
> So maybe we should make table_block_relation_estimate_size smarter to
> also consider the fillfactor in the "no statistics" branch, per the
> attached patch.
>

I like this a lot. The reasoning is obvious, the fix is simple,it doesn't
upset any make-check-world tests, and in order to get a performance
regression we'd need a table whose fillfactor has been changed after the
data was loaded but before an analyze happens, and that's a narrow enough
case to accept.

My only nitpick is to swap

(usable_bytes_per_page * fillfactor / 100) / tuple_width

with

(usable_bytes_per_page * fillfactor) / (tuple_width * 100)


as this will eliminate the extra remainder truncation, and it also gets the
arguments "in order" algebraically.


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