> what evidence do you have that you are suffering index bloat? or are > you just looking for solutions to problems that don't exist as an > academic exercise? :-) Well, firstly, its not an academic exercise - Its very much of a real problem that needs a real solution :) I'm running postgresql v8.0 and my problem is that running vacuum on my indices are blazing fast (upto 10x faster) AFTER running reindex. For a table with only 1 index, the time to do a vacuum (without full) went down from 45 minutes to under 3 minutes. Maybe thats not bloat but thats surely surprising. And this was after running vacuum periodically. Ameet > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > Ameet
