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* Need for rebuilding index after many deletions?
@ 2000-08-04 15:59 Patrick Robin <Patrick.Robin@disney.com>
  2000-08-04 17:51 ` Re: Need for rebuilding index after many deletions? Jeffrey A. Rhines <jrhines@email.com>
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From: Patrick Robin @ 2000-08-04 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; +Cc: Stephen Bowline <Stephen.Bowline@disney.com>


Hi all,

   With Postgres 6.5.2,  if a table has undergone several row deletions,
does it make sense/ is it needed  to rebuild the index?  Would this be
accomplished by
dropping it and then recreating it?

Thanks

Patrick



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* Re: Need for rebuilding index after many deletions?
  2000-08-04 15:59 Need for rebuilding index after many deletions? Patrick Robin <Patrick.Robin@disney.com>
@ 2000-08-04 17:51 ` Jeffrey A. Rhines <jrhines@email.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread

From: Jeffrey A. Rhines @ 2000-08-04 17:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org

If you're worried about performance, a vacuum should do the trick,
right?

Jeff

Patrick Robin wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>    With Postgres 6.5.2,  if a table has undergone several row deletions,
> does it make sense/ is it needed  to rebuild the index?  Would this be
> accomplished by
> dropping it and then recreating it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Patrick
> 
> --
> ________________________________________
> Patrick Robin
> patrickr@fa.disney.com
> Walt Disney Feature Animation
> 500 South Buena Vista Street
> Burbank,California 91521-4817



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