I've got a box running 7.2.1 (yes, I know :-() in which an index for a rapidly turning over (and regularly vacuumed) table is growing steadily in size. The index in question is on a timestamp field that is just set to now() on the entry of the row, to enable the query that clears out old data to an archive to run efficiently. Reindexing shrinks it back to a reasonable size. Other indexes reach an equilibrium size and stay there. The behaviour is fine on a system running 7.4.x: the index stays at a sensible number of pages.
Is this likely to be related to a known issue with 7.2 that got fixed, or have I got potentially more serious problems? Thanks Julian Scarfe ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html