On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> OK, new timings with -F enabled:
>
> index no index
> 519 same load
> 247 " first vacuum
> 40 " other vacuums
>
> 1222 X index creation
> 90 X first vacuum
> 80 X other vacuums
>
> <1 90 delete one row
> 121 38 vacuum after delete 1 row
>
> 346 344 delete all rows
> 440 44 first vacuum
> 20 <1 other vacuums(index is still same size)
>
> Conclusions:
>
> o indexes never get smaller
this one, I thought, was a known? if I remember right, Vadim changed it
so that space was reused, but index never shrunk in size ... no?
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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