Vacuumdb --force-index-cleanup option not available in postgres 12.9 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi,

In the postgres document we notice that the --force-index-cleanup option is available in PostgreSQL server 12 and Later. We have postgres db running on 12.9 but we don’t see this option.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-vacuumdb.html

Is this option enabled by default? Any pointers here?

Also we notice that vacuum is happening at regular intervals but the space occupied by indexes is always increasing.

Some outputs below. Auto vacuum is enabled but we notice index size is growing.

$ psql -U postgres -d cgms -c "SELECT pg_size_pretty(SUM(pg_relation_size(table_schema||'.'||table_name))) as size from information_schema.tables"

size

-------

25 GB

(1 row)

$ psql -U postgres -d cgms -c "SELECT pg_size_pretty(SUM(pg_indexes_size(table_schema||'.'||table_name) + pg_relation_size(table_schema||'.'||table_name))) as size from information_schema.tables"

  size

--------

151 GB

(1 row)

$ sudo du -hsc /var/lib/pgsql/12/data

154G    /var/lib/pgsql/12/data

154G    total

Appreciate if someone can give some pointers.

Regards,

Karthik