Re: index bloat

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David Esposito" <pgsql-general(at)esposito(dot)newnetco(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: index bloat
Date: 2005-07-08 03:52:49
Message-ID: 7617.1120794769@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David Esposito" <pgsql-general(at)esposito(dot)newnetco(dot)com> writes:
> Size of "problem" table: 6 million rows
> Ballpark guess on INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE queries on this table: over 1
> million/day
> ...
> I do a nightly VACUUM (not VACUUM FULL)

Given those parameters, you should expect a "slack" proportion of about
1/6th of the table. Many of the indexes you show seem to be in that
ballpark --- do you have any idea what's different about the two that
are not?

regards, tom lane

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