Re: Contrib reindex script:

On 7 May 2002, Jason Earl wrote:

> Hey thanks, I was just wondering if such a thing were available.

Here also is an updated version of the script. I've cleaned up some of
the code, heavily commented it, and fixed a bug or two. Remember, this
is basically just vacuumdb, so it'll take all the same parameters
(except the obvious ones like -z and -f) and you can put it in your
postgres bin directory. I have a line in cron that runs it every two
hours with the -a option with the same user that owns the install.

Works great!

>
> How has your migration to 7.2? Are you still have problems with the
> database growing out of control?

Actually, now that I have this script to basically be a vacuum script
for indexes to go along with vacuumdb, I've arrested the database
growth. The database I was groaning about before is standing firm
around 87MB instead of the 300MB it would normally be by now.

So far, 7.2 is fine. Database load is a non issue, growth is gone
thanks to the reindex script, and I couldn't be happier. Now the real
question is, why can't Postgres have a monitor that does these two
things (vacuum, reindex) automatically throughout the day? Something
that just trawls the tables doing a continuous partial vacuum, and
triggers on deletes and updates to keep the indexes consistant.

If what they say is true about row reuse, then I could get rid of both
my vacuumdb and reindexdb scripts at that point.

7.3?

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