-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Warren Snelling wrote: > > > Would you suggest scripting the vacuum full / reindex process to > run periodically (once a week or so)? Right now disk space on this > machine is not an issue, but vacuuming and reindexing occasionally > should keep the db from consuming too much excess space. > 7.4 has a problem with vacuuming indexes I seam to remember. I think thats this is one of the fixes in 8.0. Apart from anything a large index is going to slow your database down as the database has to scan past junk everytime it does an index lookup. Peter Childs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDKvMKJWgkOaNnHdMRAsBEAKCv3ZWdy1a4+qQG0U9Ov85TPCembQCfazPH QVPj5xEDPSumy1Z4FUSTgf4= =As1l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org