Re: Need Help with reindexing

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gourish Singbal <gourish(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Need Help with reindexing
Date: 2005-03-14 07:39:41
Message-ID: 6178.1110785981@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-admin

Gourish Singbal <gourish(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I need some help to decide when i should reindex the indexes in the table.
> ...
> When should i ideally reindex this table ?.
> (once in a month, weekly....etc)

It seems to need reindexing now, but that tells us nothing about how
often you might need to do it.

My advice is that you probably need to vacuum more often, rather than
deciding you need periodic reindexes.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Browse pgsql-admin by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Mitchell Laks 2005-03-14 07:53:51 Re: Severe Badness On My Server: psql: FATAL: the database
Previous Message Werner vd Merwe 2005-03-14 07:08:54 Performance Question