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Subject: Re: quick q re migration, index, stats
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> On Jan 6, 2021, at 6:56 PM, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> =
wrote:
>=20
> By the way, you only need to rebuild those indexes that contain string =
data types,
> unless you want to make use of the new index compression feature in =
v13.

Thanks for pointing that it out; it hadn't occurred to me. But most of =
our indexes are strings, and we do have some numeric types that can have =
duplicates, so I think I'll be lazy and reindex all instead of trying to =
pick and choose.