Re: REINDEX slow?

>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

TL> Edmund Dengler <edmundd@eSentire.com> writes:
>> Searching the web, I find lots of references to index bloat, as
>> well as recent discussions concerning index page recovery (such
>> items as reclaiming empty B+-tree pages and such). What is the
>> current state re bloat?

TL> You tell me --- are you still seeing bloat problems with 7.4?
TL> If so, can you provide more details about the index schema and
TL> the table's update patterns?

I had *awful* bloat with 7.2.  When I upgraded to 7.4, I noticed less
of it, but it was still there.  Then I discovered two programs that
were sleeping for long times inside of a transaction.  Restructuring
those to open transactions as needed fixed it all.

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