| From: | Steve Poe <spoe(at)sfnet(dot)cc> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>, emil(at)baymountain(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Help tuning postgres |
| Date: | 2005-10-12 17:32:05 |
| Message-ID: | 1129138325.26659.14.camel@amd64-gentoo-laptop |
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Would it not be faster to do a dump/reload of the table than reindex or
is it about the same?
Steve Poe
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 13:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Emil Briggs <emil(at)baymountain(dot)com> writes:
> >> Not yet, the db is in production use and I have to plan for a down-time
> >> for that... or is it not impacting the activity on the table ?
>
> > It will cause some performance hit while you are doing it.
>
> It'll also lock out writes on the table until the index is rebuilt,
> so he does need to schedule downtime.
>
> regards, tom lane
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