From: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Best practice when reindexing in production
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 18:25:21 +0100
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On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 19:12 +0200, Jesper Krogh wrote:
> Second, if the new index is significantly smaller than the old on, I
> suggest that you try to crank up the autovacuum daemon instead of
> blindly dropping and creating indexes, this will help to mitigate the
> bloat you're seeing accumulating in above test.
In my experience vacuum/autovacuum just don't reclaim any space from the
indexes, which accumulate bloat indefinitely. I've tried to work around
that in so many ways: the show-stopper has been the impossibility to
drop FK indexes in a concurrent way, coupled with VALIDATE CONSTRAINT
not doing what advertised and taking an exclusive lock.
My solution has been to become pg_repack maintainer. YMMV. Just don't
expect vacuum to reduce the indexes size: it doesn't.
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Daniele
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