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From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Abi Noda <a@abinoda.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Performance impact of updating target columns with unchanged values ON CONFLICT
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:40:51 -0600
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 01:31:10PM -0800, Abi Noda wrote:
> In other words, is Postgres smart enough to not actually write to disk any
> columns that haven’t changed value or update indexes based on those columns?

You're asking about what's referred to as Heap only tuples:
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/access/heap/README.HOT;hb=H...
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Index-only_scans#Interaction_with_HOT

Note, if you're doing alot of updates, you should consider setting a lower the
table fillfactor, since HOT is only possible if the new tuple (row version) is
on the same page as the old tuple.

|With HOT, a new tuple placed on the same page and with all indexed columns the
|same as its parent row version does not get new index entries."

And check pg_stat_user_tables to verify that's working as intended.

Justin




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