REINDEX by table or by index? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jeff Boes
Subject REINDEX by table or by index?
Date
Msg-id 1055434890.27084.29.camel@takin.private.nexcerpt.com
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[Apologies if you have seen this before. I just discovered that posting
to the group via NNTP, at Teranews.com, apparently isn't working since
my posts aren't showing up in the mailing list archives.]

Given a fairly large (7 MRows or so) table with more than one index
(say, two): would it be theoretically faster to do

  REINDEX TABLE "foo";

or

  REINDEX INDEX "ix_foo_one";

and

  REINDEX INDEX "ix_foo_two";

in another session?  (The system in question has two CPUs, if that makes
any difference.)

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