PostgreSQL hasn't a rewritten storage managent, this is a normal case.
Regards
XuYifeng
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 7:34 AM
Subject: [HACKERS] Index grows huge, possible leakage?
> After several weeks our idicies grow very large (in one case to
> 4-5 gigabytes) After droppping and recreating the indecies they
> shrink back to something more reasonable (500megs same case).
>
> We are currently using Vadim's vacuum patches for VLAZY and MMNB,
> against 7.0.3. We are using a LAZY vacuum on these tables
>
> However a normal (non-lazy) vacuum doesn't shrink the index, the
> only thing that helps reduce the size is dropping and recreating.
>
> Is this a bug in 7.0.3? A possible bug in Vadim's patches? Or is
> this somewhat expected behavior that we have to cope with?
>
> As a side note, the space requirement is actually 'ok' it's just
> that performance gets terrible once the indecies reach such huge
> sizes.
>
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
>
