Re: Make recently inserted/updated records available in the buffer/cache

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 <[email protected]> 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.
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