Re: reclaiming space from heavily used tables?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Jeremy Finzel <finzelj(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Rob Nikander <rob(dot)nikander(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: reclaiming space from heavily used tables?
Date: 2017-12-18 19:19:58
Message-ID: 20171218191958.kjzb3tzj4zvk36ye@alvherre.pgsql
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Jeremy Finzel wrote:

> This is what you want: https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack
>
> This has been around for many years and is a very trusted extension (when
> will it be in core????).

It's been around, but is it trusted? I for one do not trust it. See
for example
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoaWoU+BpBG4nwz1LGkmdsbL6_Hm9r8jNqte-5VRDLsrkQ@mail.gmail.com

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