Jozsef Szalay wrote: > >he probably needs to think harder about whether every one of those > >indexes is really carrying its weight. > > Unfortunately all of those indexes are required by the application. It > appears that the only viable option I have is to drop the indexes and > recreate them after the update. Not at all -- the option is just continue to operate normally after the update, because all the indexes are always updated. If you see an index not being updated, it's a bug and by all means report it, preferably with a test case other people can reproduce. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.