Yves Vindevogel wrote:
And, after let's say a week, would that index still be optimal or would it be a good idea to drop it in the weekend and recreate it.
It depends a little bit on the postgres version you are using. If you are only ever adding to the table, and you are not updating it or deleting from it, I think the index is always optimal. Once you start deleting from it there are a few cases where older versions would not properly re-use the empty entries, requiring a REINDEX. (Deleting low numbers and always adding high numbers was one of the cases) However, I believe that as long as you vacuum often enough, so that the system knows where the unused entries are, you don't ever have to drop and re-create the index. John =:->
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