Re: automatic REINDEX-ing - Mailing list pgsql-general

From William Garrison
Subject Re: automatic REINDEX-ing
Date
Msg-id 48A1B5CE.8030201@mobydisk.com
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In response to Re: automatic REINDEX-ing  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: automatic REINDEX-ing  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Joao Ferreira gmail <joao.miguel.c.ferreira@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I executed REINDEX by hand and the disk ocupation imediatelly dropped 6
>> Giga...!!!
>>
>
>
>> is there a way to configure postgres to automatically execute the needed
>> REINDEXING (on indexes and tables) for a given database....
>>
>
> Generally speaking, there shouldn't be a need for "automatic
> reindexing".  What the above suggests is that you need more aggressive
> routine vacuuming, so that you don't get into this situation in the
> first place.
>
> BTW, "more aggressive routine vacuuming" does NOT mean "use vacuum full".
> Vacuum full tends to make index bloat worse, not better.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>

So now that we know what that term does not mean, what does it mean?
Just doing it more often by adjusting the autovacuum parameters?

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