[HACKERS] Is there a way to drop and restore an index?

2001-08-01 Thread Tony Reina
I recall seeing a message by Tom Lane stating that dropping and re-creating a primary index may speed up db performance. Is there a SQL command that will do this? My current method is to use pg_dump -s to dump out the schema. Then I go through and cut out everything but the CREATE INDEX lines.

Re: [HACKERS] Is there a way to drop and restore an index?

2001-08-01 Thread Mike Mascari
Just off the top of my head, Couldn't you write a little PL/PGSQL procedure which queries the system tables and builds statements to execute with the new EXECUTE command for each record returned that would drop and recreate the indexes? It would take a little work but would be generic enough to

Re: [HACKERS] Is there a way to drop and restore an index?

2001-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
See REINDEX. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing

Re: [HACKERS] Is there a way to drop and restore an index?

2001-08-01 Thread G. Anthony Reina
Tom Lane wrote: See REINDEX. Thanks. -Tony ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl