Markus Benne wrote:
We are reindexing frequently, and I'm wondering if
this is really necessary, given that it appears to
take an exclusive lock on the table.
Our table in question is vacuumed every 4 minutes, and
we are reindexing after each one.
I'm not a fan of locking this table that frequently,
even if it is only for 5 - 10 seconds depending on
load.
The vacuum is a standard vacuum. Nightly we do a
vacuum analyze.
At most I'd do a nightly reindex. And in fact, I'd probably drop the
index, full vacuum, recreate index.
But you only need to reindex at all if you have a specific problem with
the index bloating. Are you seeing this?
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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