Re: Space occupied by Postgres index.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:56:53PM +0530, Shridhar Polas wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am facing a problem where indexes creates on some tables are occupying
> huge space on disk and it seems to me that this space is not getting
> reclaimed even when there are very few record in an associated table.
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> When I ran full vacuum the disk space was reclaimed occupied by tables but
> not by disk space occupied by indexes.
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> Can somebody please tell me when disk space occupied by Postgres index is
> reclaimed, without performing re-indexing on those tables?
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> Thanks,
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> Shridhar
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VACUUM FULL will cause index bloat. You will need to REINDEX to
recover the space. Note, you should not really need to use VACUUM
FULL in a normal correctly configured system.

Cheers,
Ken