"Kevin Grittner" kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote >"John Lister" <john.lister...@kickstone.com> wrote: > When you do a vacuum it marks the deleted rows as being usable > again and I can see that it reports that "xxx index row versions > were removed", however are these rows marked for reuse in an index > in the same manner as they are in the table? I note that the docs > say that vacuum full doesn't shrink indexes and that a reindex is > recommended periodically, is this still true if the table is > frequently vacuumed? >VACUUM makes space in indexes available for re-use. I don't think >that reindex is normally needed for recent releases, although I seem >to remember hearing that it was needed in older versions. What >version are you running?
Thanks for your reply. I'm using 8.3.8 (ubuntu). I thought it would do, but couldn't see anything to confirm that and some of my indexes seem to grow disproportionately to the size of the tables, but I haven't studied it in detail yet - I was trying to increase performance on a number of tables that seem to be extremely bloated for some reason. Thanks -- Got needs? Get Goblin'! - http://www.pricegoblin.co.uk/
