Re: [SQL] index file's growing big

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 10:46:19AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
> Uh, why not just "vacuum" the table?
> 
> You want to do this periodically anyway, as Postgres does not re-use TABLE
> entries either, and the table file itself will grow without bound if you
> don't do this once in a while.
> 
> Further, if the tables are large you want to use "vacuum analyze" to reorder
> the indices in a fashion that makes queries more efficient.
> 

Well, with a recent version, that will help keep the index from growing as
fast, but it will still grow. That's the point of my garbled description.

However, if Zoltan is _not_ vacuuming regularly, that's a problem as well.
If he wasn't, though, I'd have expected him to complain about the size
of the table file, not the index file.

Ross

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