Hello Amit.

Also, given the heavy UPDATE nature of the pgbench test, a non 100% default
fill factor on some tables would make sense.

FWIW, sometime back I have seen that with fill factor 80, at somewhat
moderate client counts (32) on 192 - Hyper Threaded m/c, the
performance is 20~30% better, but at higher client counts, it was same
as 100 fill factor.

The 20-30% figure is consistent with figures I collected 2 years ago about fill factor on HDD, see the beginning run of:

http://blog.coelho.net/database/2014/08/23/postgresql-fillfactor-and-update.html

Although I found that the advantages is reduced after some time because once a page has got an update it has some free space which can be taken advantage of later on, if the space was not reclaimed by vacuum.

I cannot understand why there would be no advantage with more clients, though...

Alas, performance testing is quite sensitive to many details:-(

--
Fabien.


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