reindex should be faster, since you're not dumping/reloading the table
contents on top of rebuilding the index, you're just rebuilding the
index.
Robert Treat
emdeon Practice Services
Alachua, Florida
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 13:32, Steve Poe wrote:
>
> Would it not be faster to do a dump/reload of the table than reindex or
> is it about the same?
>
> Steve Poe
>
> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 13:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Emil Briggs <emil@baymountain.com> writes:
> > >> Not yet, the db is in production use and I have to plan for a down-time
> > >> for that... or is it not impacting the activity on the table ?
> >
> > > It will cause some performance hit while you are doing it.
> >
> > It'll also lock out writes on the table until the index is rebuilt,
> > so he does need to schedule downtime.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
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