Re: reindexdb

From: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
To: Steve Clark <sclark(at)netwolves(dot)com>, pgsql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: reindexdb
Date: 2014-04-29 14:54:44
Message-ID: 535FBD34.20300@pinpointresearch.com
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On 04/29/2014 07:22 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a small (2GB) 8.4.20 database. The prior maintainer ran a
> reindexdb
> twice a day (originally started with 7.3.x). Can anybody see a reason
> why we need to
> continue to do this?

I don't. It certainly appears to be a piece of duct-tape put on either
due to a real or perceived ancient bug or due to somebody's
misunderstanding of things in the distant past. (I would, however, start
looking at upgrading from 8.4 which is EOL in about 3 months.)

Cheers,
Steve

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