Re: Extreme bloating of intarray GiST indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Extreme bloating of intarray GiST indexes
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Msg-id 15606.1304535035@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Extreme bloating of intarray GiST indexes  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> On 5/4/11 11:29 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If you can't change the app, I'd suggest more aggressive autovacuuming
>> as the least painful fix.

> Will test that.  It's not clear that vacuuming is helping at all.

Well, you realize of course that you need a REINDEX to get the index
size back down to a sane range.  Autovacuum may or may not be able to
keep it from creeping back up ... but vacuum definitely won't remove
existing bloat.
        regards, tom lane


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