Re: rebuild index question

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Glenn Wiorek <gwiorek(at)jmlafferty(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: rebuild index question
Date: 2003-10-16 19:41:19
Message-ID: 20031016194119.GA31284@wolff.to
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 14:28:09 -0500,
Glenn Wiorek <gwiorek(at)jmlafferty(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello all, It appears that the rebuild index command (driven by contrib/reindexdb) recreates the index with a new oids in the default data directory. This has just caused me a lot of grief to move and relink 329 indices (again) because of space and disk constraints (35 GB to spread across 4 drives). Since rebuilding indexes is a common and often needed task how is everyone working around this?

This should be a lot better in 7.4. Most people should not need to do
reindexes.

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