On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 03:03:43PM +0200, DANTE Alexandra wrote:
> Imagine you have a database on which a lot of transactions are done
> daily : the tables will contain a lot of dead tuples and the B-tree
> index too.
>
> If I do a VACUUM on this database, will the B-tree index be scanned,
> space reclaimed and made available for re-use ?
Old versions didn't, but recent versions do.
> Does this action only do by a VACUUM FULL ?
Also by VACUUM FULL, but plain VACIIM is enough.
> Or is it necessary to do a REINDEX on the index to retrieve a
> well-balanced tree ?
There are always corner case situations. In older versions a REINDEX
helped balance the tree but recent versions are much better.
Have a nice day,
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