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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Koczan <pjkoczan@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: disabling an index without deleting it?
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:02:46 -0500
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Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
>>> begin;
>>> drop index abc_dx;
>>> select ....
>>> rollback;

> It may cause catalog bloat though, right?

Not in this particular case; AFAIR this will only result in catalog row
deletions, not updates.  So when the deletions roll back, there's no
dead rows to clean up.

			regards, tom lane

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