Re: db grows and grows

Nevermind, I just found it.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2002-05/msg00242.php

Thanks!

-Fran

>On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:37:38PM -0400, terry(at)greatgulfhomes(dot)com wrote:
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>>If he needs to REINDEX live without locking out selects, then simply DROP
>>INDEX <indexname>; and then do a CREATE INDEX ... to recreate it. Drop is
>>fast, and the create does not acquire the exclusive lock.
>>
>>The only down side of delete/recreate is that with REINDEX one did not need
>>to know the statement to recreate the index, and the latter does.
>>
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>A while ago I did post a script that did this, only it did the create first,
>then the drop and then renamed the new index to the old one. All within a
>transaction so other queries wouldn't be left without an index.
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>It used pg_dump to get the CREATE INDEX command.
>
>Should be in the archive somewhere...
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