| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Thoughts on maintaining 7.3 |
| Date: | 2003-10-05 03:17:09 |
| Message-ID: | 200310050317.h953H9L01310@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Do we move empty index pages to the end before truncation during vacuum
> > full?
>
> No. You'd be better off using REINDEX for that, I think. IIRC we have
> speculated about making VAC FULL fix the indexes via REINDEX rather than
> indexbulkdelete.
I guess my point is that if you forget to run regular vacuum for a
month, then realize the problem, you can just do a VACUUM FULL and the
heap is back to a perfect state as if you had been running regular
vacuum all along. That is not true of indexes. It would be nice if it
would.
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