Re: Index bloat of 4x - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Index bloat of 4x
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Msg-id 20070117171251.GH26080@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Index bloat of 4x  (Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>)
Responses Re: Index bloat of 4x
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Bill Moran wrote:

> The entire database was around 28M prior to the upgrades, etc.  Immediately
> after the upgrades, it was ~270M.  Following a vacuum full, it dropped to
> 165M.  Following a database-wide reindex, it dropped to 30M.

Oh, so it was clearly the upgrade procedure that caused the bloat ...
Reindexing seems the expected course.

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