Thread: Unused indexes
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 idx_tup_read idx_tup_fetch If it matters, the version is 9.6.6. Thanks -- Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.
I think your assumption is correct, as long as the statistics collector is working correctly (I've never seen this not being the case), and the setting "track_counts" is set to on.
Am Sa., 1. Dez. 2018 um 05:24 Uhr schrieb Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>:
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
idx_tup_read
idx_tup_fetch
If it matters, the version is 9.6.6.
Thanks
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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, -- Martín Marqués It’s not that I have something to hide, it’s that I have nothing I want you to see