Re: Vacuumdb --force-index-cleanup option not available in postgres 12.9

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 02:45:37PM +0000, Karthik Jagadish (kjagadis) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the postgres document we notice that the --force-index-cleanup option is available in PostgreSQL server 12 and
Later.We have postgres db running on 12.9 but we don’t see this option.
 
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-vacuumdb.html

Those are the docs for the current version (v15).

vacuumdb is a client, which can run against older (or newer) servers.

The --force-index-cleanup option was added in v14, and can be used
against servers back to v12.  But the command-line option to the
vacuumdb client doesn't exist before v14 (even though the server-side
supports it).

> Also we notice that vacuum is happening at regular intervals but the
> space occupied by indexes is always increasing.
                                       
 

I don't know.  But this busy mailing list is for development; these
questions would be better addressed to pgsql-user.

-- 
Justin