Re: How do I know my table is bloated?

Well, so I need to do reindex frequentely in database? Is that right?
Or should I use cluster, as David said?
How frequently should I do this operation?

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Igor Neyman <ineyman(at)perceptron(dot)com>wrote:

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> From: Rodrigo Barboza [mailto:rodrigombufrj(at)gmail(dot)com]
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> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How do I know my table is bloated?
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> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Igor Neyman <ineyman(at)perceptron(dot)com>
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> From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:
> pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Barboza
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> Subject: [ADMIN] How do I know my table is bloated?
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> Hi, everyone.
> I saw some people talking about the reindex command and I read in the docs
> the one reason to use reindex is when a table is bloated.
> But how do I know when a table is bloated?
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> You could use PGSTATTUPLE extension, which you could read about here:
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> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/pgstattuple.html
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> Regards,
> Igor Neyman
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> --Does auto-vaccum do the reindex process for us?
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> No, autovacuum and reindexing are 2 completely different processes.
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> Igor Neyman
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