Re: automatic REINDEX-ing

At 12:04p -0400 on Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Joao Ferreira wrote:
> I'm a bit lost here.  I'm currently executing VACUUM FULL _and_ REINDEX
> (tbls & idxs) every week.
>
> Should I keep the REINDEX and drop VACUUM FULL ?
>
> How do I iterate to a better approach ?

It might behoove you to read the Notes section of the docs about vacuuming:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-vacuum.html

Roughly, VACUUM simply reclaims/frees disk space, while VACUUM FULL
additionally reorganizes disk usage.  I'm still don't know *why* this
leads to index bloat, however, just that it does.  I must defer that
explication to a Postgres guru.

Kevin