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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Bill Chandler <billybobc1210@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-perform <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Index bloat problem?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:22:03 -0700
Message-ID: <200504211022.03541.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
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Bill,

> What about if an out-of-the-ordinary number of rows
> were deleted (say 75% of rows in the table, as opposed
> to normal 5%) followed by a 'VACUUM ANALYZE'?  Could
> things get out of whack because of that situation?

Yes.  You'd want to run REINDEX after and event like that.  As you should now.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco



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