Re: Unused indexes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martín Marqués
Subject Re: Unused indexes
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Msg-id CABeG9Lv0X2k83j9EXpW6cW4RQzyRvs6iFyoTLJ6D7DfDkGDqeg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Unused indexes  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
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El sáb., 1 dic. 2018 a las 8:24, Ron (<ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>) escribió:
>
> For indexes that existed before the cluster was last started, and for which
> REINDEX hasn't been run on them since the cluster was last started... is it
> valid to say that an index has not been used since the cluster was started
> if these three pg_stat_all_indexes fields all have a value of 0?
>
> idx_scan

Just this one, and that the index doesn't force a constraint (it's not
a unique index).

One other thing to keep in mind is that, if you have hot_standby
replicas, the index might be used there, and the primary doesn't have
information of index_scans on other nodes of the cluster.

Regards,

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Martín Marqués
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