Re: Finding bloated indexes?

From: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Dan Harris" <fbsd(at)drivefaster(dot)net>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Performance" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Finding bloated indexes?
Date: 2007-04-14 08:27:25
Message-ID: 1176539246.3635.317.camel@silverbirch.site
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On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:01 -0600, Dan Harris wrote:
> Is there a pg_stat_* table or the like that will show how bloated an index is?
> I am trying to squeeze some disk space and want to track down where the worst
> offenders are before performing a global REINDEX on all tables, as the database
> is rougly 400GB on disk and this takes a very long time to run.
>
> I have been able to do this with tables, using a helpful view posted to this
> list a few months back, but I'm not sure if I can get the same results on indexes.

Use pgstatindex in contrib/pgstattuple

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Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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