Jaime Casanova wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:33 PM, raghavendra t > <raagavendra.rao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Why are you doing that? >> Our table face lot of updates and deletes in a day, so we prefer reindex to >> update the indexes as well overcome with a corrupted index. >> > > do you have a corrupted index? if not, there is nothing to do... > REINDEX is not a mantenance task on postgres Actually, if your free_space_map (pre 8.4) isn't up to keeping track of bloat, or autovac isn't running enough, you're likely to get bloat of indexes as well as tables that may need VACUUM FULL + REINDEX to properly clean up. It's probably better to fix your fsm/autovac settings then CLUSTER the table so it doesn't happen again, though. -- Craig Ringer -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
