Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

[Robert . Farrugia]

I will try and do this.  Will let you know how it went.

Regards
Robert



                                                                                       
                            
                    Tom Lane                                                           
                            
                    <[EMAIL PROTECTED]        To:     Ragnar Kjørstad 
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                    19/07/2001                                                         
                            
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=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:38:25AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> Since I have a number of heavy inserts per day, dropping the indexes and
>> recreating them could be an option.   Only problem I see is that to
>> recreate them they take alot of time, at which queries will be
tremendously
>> slow.

> What about first creating new indexes (with a different name), and then
> delete the old one? will that work?

Should work fine as far as read-only queries go.  CREATE INDEX locks out
writes, however, so those will be blocked in any case...

                               regards, tom lane





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