From: Віталій Тимчишин <tivv00@gmail.com>
To: Tory M Blue <tmblue@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Index bloat, reindex weekly, suggestions etc?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:00:19 +0300
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2008/10/17 Tory M Blue <tmblue@gmail.com>
>
> The real issue is my index growth and my requirement for weekly
> re-indexing (which blocks and therefore is more or less a manual
> process in a live production environment (fail over, changing vips
> etc).
>
BTW: Can't you simply recreate indexes online? Since postgresql accepts
multiple indexes of same definition, this may look like:
1) create index concurrently index_alt
2) analyze index_alt
3) drop index_orig
Both index_alt and index_orig having same definition
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