On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:28:34PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
Reindexing is in a different class than vacuuming.
Kinda, but it is in the same class as vacuum full. If vacuum neglect (or dramatic change in usage) has gotten you to the point of 10G of overhead on a 2G table you can get a dramatic speedup if you vacuum full, by dumping a lot of unused space. But in that case you might have a similar amount of overhead in indices, which isn't going to go away unless you reindex. In either case the unused rows will be reused as needed, but if you know you aren't going to need the space again anytime soon you might need to vacuum full/reindex.
Mike Stone
