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Re: How often do I need to reindex tables?



Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com> writes:
> I don't agree.  I think that regular indexing is mandatory under some
> workloads.  Example:
> ...
> There are some additional indexes that I've snipped from the output that also
> saw some benefit from reindexing, but let's just focus on file_fp_idx.

Can you describe the usage pattern of that index?  I'm curious why it
doesn't maintain reasonably static size.  How often is the underlying
table vacuumed?

			regards, tom lane



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