On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Віталій Тимчишин <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2008/10/17 Tory M Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> The real issue is my index growth and my requirement for weekly >> re-indexing (which blocks and therefore is more or less a manual >> process in a live production environment (fail over, changing vips >> etc). > > BTW: Can't you simply recreate indexes online? Since postgresql accepts > multiple indexes of same definition, this may look like: > 1) create index concurrently index_alt > 2) analyze index_alt > 3) drop index_orig > Both index_alt and index_orig having same definition
Sorry for the late response. After some testing, this is in fact a solution that will and does work. It's really much simpler than doing switch overs and taking systems down to re index. Thanks for the clue stick over the head, I know we looked into this in the past and it was a non starter, but it seems to be working just fine!! Thanks Tory. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
