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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Index bloat of 4x
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:08:25 -0500
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Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> writes:
> It wasn't the fact that it bloated that surprised me.  It was the
> _magnitude_ of bloat that I wasn't expecting, as well as the fact that
> it was _all_ _index_ bloat.

Um, no, you had plenty of table *and* index bloat before.  The problem
here is that VACUUM FULL fixed all the table bloat whilst making the
index situation worse :-(

			regards, tom lane

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