Thank you, Michaels.
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I didn't know about fillfactor and table bloat. Did some reading on those topics. We will definitely need to tweak these settings.
I am also going to use SKIP LOCKED to _select for update_. Any suggestions on tuning parameters for SKIP LOCKED?
Thanks
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:02 PM MichaelDBA <MichaelDBA@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yep, I concur completely! For tables treated like queues you gotta do
this stuff or deal with bloat and fragmented indexes.
Michael Lewis wrote on 12/3/2019 12:29 PM:
> "I am going to use it as a queue"
>
> You may want to look at lowering fillfactor if this queue is going to
> have frequent updates, and also make autovacuum/analyze much more
> aggressive assuming many updates and deletes.
