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Re: Finding bloated indexes?



On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:01 -0600, Dan Harris wrote:
> Is there a pg_stat_* table or the like that will show how bloated an index is? 
> I am trying to squeeze some disk space and want to track down where the worst 
> offenders are before performing a global REINDEX on all tables, as the database 
> is rougly 400GB on disk and this takes a very long time to run.
> 
> I have been able to do this with tables, using a helpful view posted to this 
> list a few months back, but I'm not sure if I can get the same results on indexes.

Use pgstatindex in contrib/pgstattuple

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  Simon Riggs             
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com





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