On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:40 AM, Jens Wilke wrote: > yes, we used it to reduce massive bloat after a database split and > were very satisfied. > IIRC "vacuum full" mode rewrites the indexes as well. Till 8.4 no. From 9.0 onwards yes. However VACUUM FULL still locks the table. > There's a proposal about an alternative to pg_reorg on depesz' Blog: > http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2010/10/17/reduce-bloat-of-table-without-longexclusive-locks/ For huge bloats, mentioned Method is slower. Thanks & Regards, Vibhor Kumar EnterpriseDB Corporation The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company vibhor.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog:http://vibhork.blogspot.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general