On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:56:53PM +0530, Shridhar Polas wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am facing a problem where indexes creates on some tables are occupying > huge space on disk and it seems to me that this space is not getting > reclaimed even when there are very few record in an associated table. > > > > When I ran full vacuum the disk space was reclaimed occupied by tables but > not by disk space occupied by indexes. > > > > Can somebody please tell me when disk space occupied by Postgres index is > reclaimed, without performing re-indexing on those tables? > > > > Thanks, > > Shridhar > VACUUM FULL will cause index bloat. You will need to REINDEX to recover the space. Note, you should not really need to use VACUUM FULL in a normal correctly configured system. Cheers, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
