>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2007 at 10:42 AM, in message <B10E6810AC2A2F4EA7550D072CDE8760197DD5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Campbell, Lance" <lance@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > How can I [. . .] get rid of some unnecessary indexes Here's what I periodically run to look for unused indexes: select relname, indexrelname from pg_stat_user_indexes where indexrelname not like '%_pkey' and idx_scan = 0 order by relname, indexrelname ; We omit the primary keys from the list (based on our naming convention) because they are needed to ensure integrity. -Kevin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings