Re: pg_reorg

On Montag, 18. April 2011, Scott Mead wrote:

> I've seen it, but catalog hacks always make me nervous.  Anybody
> else have good / bad experience to share?

Hi,

yes, we used it to reduce massive bloat after a database split and
were very satisfied.
IIRC "vacuum full" mode rewrites the indexes as well.

There's a proposal about an alternative to pg_reorg on depesz' Blog:
http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2010/10/17/reduce-bloat-of-table-without-longexclusive-locks/

regards,
Jens