From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Julian Scarfe" <julian(dot)scarfe(at)ntlworld(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Index bloat in 7.2 |
Date: | 2004-12-05 19:36:40 |
Message-ID: | 17974.1102275400@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Julian Scarfe" <julian(dot)scarfe(at)ntlworld(dot)com> writes:
> I've got a box running 7.2.1 (yes, I know :-() in which an index for a
> rapidly turning over (and regularly vacuumed) table is growing steadily in
> size. The index in question is on a timestamp field that is just set to
> now() on the entry of the row, to enable the query that clears out old data
> to an archive to run efficiently. Reindexing shrinks it back to a
> reasonable size. Other indexes reach an equilibrium size and stay there. The
> behaviour is fine on a system running 7.4.x: the index stays at a sensible
> number of pages.
That's exactly what I'd expect ...
regards, tom lane
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