Hello admins,

I have a PostgreSQL 8.1.4 server under Linux Red Hat with several databases. The server is configured with WAL archiving turned on. As a maintenance process, every night one cron job launches a backup process to the server with pg_dump, then the server shuts down and starts up and do a REINDEX DATABASE to all databases to keep all tables reindexed.

After 30 days of no activity to the server (this is a DBA test server) the amount of WAL segments is increasing at very high speed. Every REINDEX process generates between 25 and 30 WAL segments. With this behavior (and no activity!!) I can not maintain this amount of data to performs future WAL backups and recovers.

Any idea to decrease the number of WAL segments generated?
Is possible to know when a table would be reindexed and to avoid dayly REINDEX process?

Thank you.
Jose Manuel García V.
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