Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Greg Stark wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>
>>>> Why all the choices?  What cases are there for doing one without the
>>>> other?  If you want to get 'fine tuned', do a 'REINDEX TABLE' ... I can
>>>> see REINDEX SYSTEM and REINDEX DATABASE (includes SYSTEM), but not the
>>>> USER one ..
>>>
>>> The main argument I can think of for REINDEX USER is that it could be
>>> executed by someone who isn't necessarily superuser.  Not sure how
>>> important that is, though.
>>
>> Couldn't behaviour of REINDEX DATABASE not take that into account, and 'skip'
>> the system indices if not superuser?
>
> I can see a reasonable argument for them to be separated like this. If I
> wanted to reindex everything in sight in a large database I would want to
> control when each of my user tables was reindexed -- some of them would take
> all night for a single table.
>
> But all the system tables together should never be so large as to be a problem
> doing them in a single batch and I would never be able to enumerate them all
> myself.
>
> So I would probably start with a REINDEX SYSTEM and then go through my tables
> and group them into chunks to run in each maintenance window available.
>
> Of course online index rebuilds would be even better :)

Right, so that would be in favor of REINDEX {SYSTEM,DATABASE}, which I 
don't question ... the only one I question is adding a third USER one ... 
it can't hurt, but is it required?


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