• I'd consider clustering by only customer_id, unless the selects themselves order by both customer_id and thing_id.

    I'd also use a lower fillfactor for these indexes, maybe starting somewhere between 80% and 90%. A few page splits aren't that bad, but you probably don't want every page immediately splitting.

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