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Subject: Re: How to detect if a postgresql gin index is bloated
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Keith Fiske <keith.fiske@crunchydata.com>, khan Affan
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On Thu, 2024-07-25 at 23:01 -0400, Keith Fiske wrote:
> Any more insight on how to use those two options to actually calculate GI=
N bloat?
> From what I could tell pgstattuple didn't provide anything that could be =
used.
> I hadn't looked further into the other yet, but if you know how to do tha=
t already
> that info would be great.

I don't think that there is anything smarter than to create a new index wit=
h the
same definition and see if it is much smaller than the original index...

Yours,
Laurenz Albe