On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> If we start to enlarge the bounding boxes on the higher levels of the
>> tree and then crash before inserting the key, is there any mechanism
>> for getting them back down to the minimal size?
>
> No. There's also no mechanism for trimming the bounding boxes if a tuple is
> deleted.
Oh. So do the indexes just degrade over time until they eventually
need to be REINDEX'd?
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