Re: How often do I need to reindex tables?

From: "Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha" <ezequias(dot)rocha(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
Cc: "Dhaval Shah" <dhaval(dot)shah(dot)m(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How often do I need to reindex tables?
Date: 2007-02-28 16:28:53
Message-ID: 55c095e90702280828w36af9ad6s2c7670c47fb3efa0@mail.gmail.com
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Ezequias.

2007/2/27, Jim C. Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:26:02AM -0800, Dhaval Shah wrote:
> > I am planning to use 8.2 and the average inserts/deletes and updates
> > across all tables is moderate. That is, it is a moderate sized
> > database with moderate usage of tables.
> >
> > Given that, how often do I need to reindex the tables? Do I need to do
> > it everyday?
>
> No, you should very rarely if ever need to do it.
>
> If you're really concerned, I suggest monitoring average tuples per
> index page; something like
>
> SELECT relname, reltuples/relpages FROM pg_class WHERE relkind = 'i' AND
> relpages > 1000;
>
> That'll show tuples/page for all indexes over 8MB in size.
>
> > Also with 8.2, I do not have to do vacuum anymore or that is what I
> > understand. Does it do auto-vacuum?
>
> You still need to enable autovacuum. See autovacuum_enable.
> --
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