Re: Unused indices

On 02/24/2011 12:13 PM, Greg Smith wrote:

> That's not quite the right filter. You want to screen out
> everything that isn't a unique index, not just the primary key ones.
> You probably can't drop any of those without impacting database
> integrity.

Ah yes. I was considering adding the clause for unique indexes. Filthy
constraint violations.

> Also, as a picky point, you really should use functions like
> pg_relation_size instead of doing math on relpages.

You know, I always think about that, but I'm essentially lazy. :) I
personally haven't ever had the old *8 trick fail, but from your
perspective of working with so many variations, I could see how you'd
want to avoid it.

I'll be good from now on. ;)

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