Re: REINDEX in tables

El día miércoles, octubre 25, 2023 a las 11:33:11 +0200, Andreas Kretschmer escribió:

> Am 25.10.23 um 11:24 schrieb Matthias Apitz:
> > We have a client who run REINDEX in certain tables of the database of
> > our application (on Linux with PostgreSQL 13.x):
> >
> > REINDEX TABLE CONCURRENTLY d83last;
> > REINDEX TABLE CONCURRENTLY d86plz;
> > REINDEX TABLE CONCURRENTLY ig_memtable;
> > REINDEX TABLE CONCURRENTLY ig_dictionary;
> > REINDEX TABLE CONCURRENTLY ig_dictionary;
> > REINDEX TABLE CONCURRENTLY d50zweig ;
> > REINDEX TABLE CONCURRENTLY d50zweig ;
> >
> > We as the software vendor and support, do not use or recommend this
> > procedure, because we have own SQL files for creating or deleting
> > indices in the around 400 tables.
> >
> > The client is now concerned about the issue that the number of
> > rows in some of the above tables has increased. Is this possible?
>
> In principle, there is nothing wrong with doing this in a maintenance
> window, for example.

But, this wasn't the question. It was: can it happen that the number of
rows in thze table will increase by this operation?

matthias

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