Re: How often do I need to reindex tables? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How often do I need to reindex tables?
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Msg-id 5314.1172683378@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: How often do I need to reindex tables?  (Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>)
Responses Re: How often do I need to reindex tables?  (Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>)
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Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> writes:
> I don't agree.  I think that regular indexing is mandatory under some
> workloads.  Example:
> ...
> There are some additional indexes that I've snipped from the output that also
> saw some benefit from reindexing, but let's just focus on file_fp_idx.

Can you describe the usage pattern of that index?  I'm curious why it
doesn't maintain reasonably static size.  How often is the underlying
table vacuumed?

            regards, tom lane

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