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Re: Vacuuming of indexes on tables.


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Vacuuming of indexes on tables.
  • Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:50:04 -0400
  • Message-id: <12663(dot)1145368204(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com> writes:
> Much later in the day, a vacuum analyze of the
> db showed that all of the indexes for that table
> required significant vacuuming, although the
> table did not.  

What do you mean by that exactly?  If it's just that the index pages
emptied by one VACUUM aren't actually recycled till the next one,
that's by design.

			regards, tom lane



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