Re: rebuild index question - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: rebuild index question
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Msg-id 20031016194119.GA31284@wolff.to
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In response to rebuild index question  ("Glenn Wiorek" <gwiorek@jmlafferty.com>)
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 14:28:09 -0500,
  Glenn Wiorek <gwiorek@jmlafferty.com> wrote:
> Hello all,  It appears that the rebuild index command (driven by contrib/reindexdb)  recreates the index with a new
oidsin the default data directory. This has just caused me a lot of grief to move and relink 329 indices (again)
becauseof space and disk constraints (35 GB to spread across 4 drives).  Since rebuilding indexes is a common and often
neededtask how is everyone working around this?  

This should be a lot better in 7.4. Most people should not need to do
reindexes.

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