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On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:14:45PM -0500, Chris Browne wrote:
> > As for Reindex, I'm not entirely sure, I don't think you would benefit
> > from reindex because you aren't updating or deleting.  Can anyone comment
> > on this?  Is is possibile that a table with lots of inserts resulting in
> > lots of page splits etc could ever benifit form REINDEX?
> 
> I could imagine a CLUSTER doing some good, and if that's the case,
> REINDEX could have some favorable results.  But you'd better have a
> real specific model as to why that would be...

Aside from the cluster case, are there any issues with how page splits
in the b-tree are done that could lead to better performance after a
REINDEX?
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