Well, so I need to do reindex frequentely in database? Is that right? Or should I use cluster, as David said? How frequently should I do this operation?
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Igor Neyman <iney...@perceptron.com>wrote: > > > From: Rodrigo Barboza [mailto:rodrigombu...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:42 AM > To: Igor Neyman > Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How do I know my table is bloated? > > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Igor Neyman <iney...@perceptron.com> > wrote: > > > From: pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto: > pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Barboza > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:06 AM > To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org > Subject: [ADMIN] How do I know my table is bloated? > > Hi, everyone. > I saw some people talking about the reindex command and I read in the docs > the one reason to use reindex is when a table is bloated. > But how do I know when a table is bloated? > > You could use PGSTATTUPLE extension, which you could read about here: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/pgstattuple.html > > Regards, > Igor Neyman > > > --Does auto-vaccum do the reindex process for us? > > No, autovacuum and reindexing are 2 completely different processes. > > Igor Neyman >
