Re: pg_reorg

On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:40 AM, Jens Wilke wrote:

> yes, we used it to reduce massive bloat after a database split and
> were very satisfied.
> IIRC "vacuum full" mode rewrites the indexes as well.

Till 8.4 no. From 9.0 onwards yes. However VACUUM FULL still locks the table.


> There's a proposal about an alternative to pg_reorg on depesz' Blog:
> http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2010/10/17/reduce-bloat-of-table-without-longexclusive-locks/

For huge bloats, mentioned Method is slower.

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