Re: tsearch2 and gist index bloat

From: George Essig <george_essig(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: tsearch2 and gist index bloat
Date: 2003-11-06 19:24:40
Message-ID: 20031106192440.25052.qmail@web80205.mail.yahoo.com
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--- Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, George Essig wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply. For this project, I can update the data and reindex during off-peak
> hours.
> > I was just surprised to see the size of the index double after heavy write activity.
> >
>
> This is not tsearch specific problem. It was discussed several times, ]
> see index bloat subject in archives.
>
> Oleg
>

I understand that index bloat is a general problem, but is this particular problem more severe
because of a gist index? By the way, I'm running PostgreSQL 7.4 Release Candidate 1.

Thanks,
George Essig

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