Re: Index bloat in 7.2 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Index bloat in 7.2
Date
Msg-id 17974.1102275400@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Index bloat in 7.2  ("Julian Scarfe" <julian.scarfe@ntlworld.com>)
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"Julian Scarfe" <julian.scarfe@ntlworld.com> writes:
> I've got a box running 7.2.1 (yes, I know :-() in which an index for a
> rapidly turning over (and regularly vacuumed) table is growing steadily in
> size.  The index in question is on a timestamp field that is just set to
> now() on the entry of the row, to enable the query that clears out old data
> to an archive to run efficiently.  Reindexing shrinks it back to a
> reasonable size. Other indexes reach an equilibrium size and stay there. The
> behaviour is fine on a system running 7.4.x: the index stays at a sensible
> number of pages.

That's exactly what I'd expect ...

            regards, tom lane

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