Re: Index file size keeps on growing.....

Hi Jean,

Have you tried REINDEX?
what version of postgresql is it?

regds
mallah.

On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:10 pm, Jean-Christophe ARNU (JX) wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm in front of a real problem (from my point of view). I have some tables
> with a lot of update insert and delete (24/7). These tables have multiples
> indexes. Major part of Insert commands are performed as bulk at 00:00:00.
> I'm doing Vaccum and then a vacuum analyze to clean tables (well done) and
> update indexes (also performed) BUT index are not "cleaned" in the way
> their size keeps on growing in size...
> The real problem is that I have tables that takes about 20MB each and
> index around 190MB (for some of them). The only way I found to reduce index
> file size is to destroy the incriminated indexes and recreate, praying for
> select not to happen between drop and create operation (I cannot afford
> table lock)...
>
> So is this a correct Postgres Behaviour?
> Do I have a neat way to make my index keep a reasonnable size?
> Did I missed something in the config file and/or with the vacuum commands?
>
> Thanks for any clue!!

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