Am Freitag, 24. März 2006 05:48 schrieb Tom Lane: > Well, the VACUUM FULL algorithm is incapable of shrinking indexes --- > the only way is REINDEX, or something else that reconstructs indexes > from scratch, such as CLUSTER. One of the things we need to look into > is putting more smarts into VACUUM so that it automatically does > something reasonable when faced with extreme cases like these. If the user is running VACUUM FULL, he has presumably determined that the table is too bloated to be recovered in a graceful way, and quite likely the indexes are going to be bloated similarly. So seemingly one might as well launch a reindexing on the table after VACUUM FULL has done its thing. Whether that should be automatic is another question but perhaps the advice should be documented somewhere? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
