On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1. Somebody inserts a bunch of new tuples into the relation, causing
>> growth in the index.
>
> In case it's not obvious VACUUM FULL would do precisely that.
Oh, I didn't even think about that. Yeah, that could be it, too. So
maybe VACUUM FULL - crash before checkpoint - problem with recovery?
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