Re: How to rebuild index efficiently - Mailing list pgsql-general

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In response to Re: How to rebuild index efficiently  (Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>)
Responses Re: How to rebuild index efficiently  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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On 8/3/20 12:58 PM, Christophe Pettus wrote
>> On Aug 3, 2020, at 10:20, Konireddy Rajashekar <rajkonireddy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Could you please suggest any ideal approach to tackle this ?
> You can do CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY to build a new index with the same definition, and when that is complete, drop
theold index.  The locking that is required here is modest: CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY needs to lock the table briefly
ata couple of points in the operation, and dropping the old index requires a brief lock on the table.  It is, however,
muchless overall lock time than REINDEX would be.
 

Of course, you need enough disk space... :)

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