Re: impact of truncate table on indexes

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Dinesh Bhandary <dbhandary@xxxxxxx> writes:
> We have been having some performance issues with indexes right after 
> truncating a table.

You'd need to be a lot more specific than that if you want useful help.
Also, pgsql-performance is a better list for discussing performance
issues.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SlowQueryQuestions

> My understanding is truncate removes all the 
> contents of the table and the space get reclaimed immediately.
> In such cases what happens to its indexes.

They get rebuilt as empty indexes.

> It does not seem like they 
> are removed, but merely marked for deletion by a vacuum job and it 
> creates huge bloats and performance problems.

On what do you base this clearly-contrary-to-reality conclusion?

			regards, tom lane

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