From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Azad Bolour <azadbolour@bolour.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: can postgres btree indexes shrink?
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:55:17 -0400
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Azad Bolour wrote:
> Does the postgres implementation of btrees shrink the index if adjacent
> index tree nodes can be combined?
No. Completely empty pages are collected as free space for later use,
but partially-empty pages are not merged.
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