Re: When to REINDEX a serial key?

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: When to REINDEX a serial key?
Date: 2021-07-06 12:19:24
Message-ID: 4cc31261-a074-f756-9739-c53400dd298b@gmail.com
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On 7/6/21 4:52 AM, David Rowley wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 21:35, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> The legacy RDBMS which I used to manage has a tool for analyzing (not in the Postgresql meaning of the word) an index, and displaying a histogram of how many layers deep various parts of an index are. Using that histogram, you can tell whether or not an index needs to be rebuilt.
>>
>> How does one get the same effect in Postgresql?
> There are a few suggestions in
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Show_database_bloat

How does bloat relate to a lopsided b-tree?

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