Обсуждение: Index bloat? Try pgindexrebuild, a production friendly index debloater

Hello all,

If you use/update a PostgreSQL server for a long time,
one problem you may come across is index bloat. Your database will grow
in size on your disk, your indexes getting larger on disk. It's no fun
when your database fills up the disk and won't start anymore. I've had
this problem when using Nominatim, an open source address geocoder for
OpenStreetMap/

There are several solutions to this, but I wanted a way to fix index
bloat while still being able to use the database as a production
database, so I wrote pgindexrebuild:

    https://github.com/rory/pgindexrebuild

It uses CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY to create a new index and
replace the old bloated one afterwards. The CONCURRENTLY ensure that you
can still read and write from the table while it is creating a new
index. It has some nice things like lock files, bloat thresholds, and
logging, to allow you to put it in cron and forget about it. "Set up and
forget" is a design goal.

Although I'm using this often, I'm always open to suggestions about
braindead things I might be doing. ☺ Suggestions welcome!

This is inspired by [pgtoolkit](https://github.com/grayhemp/pgtoolkit)
which does the same thing for table bloat.

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Am 06.09.2016 um 09:16 schrieb Rory McCann:
> Hello all,

Hi Rory,

>
> If you use/update a PostgreSQL server for a long time,
> one problem you may come across is index bloat. Your database will grow
> in size on your disk, your indexes getting larger on disk. It's no fun
> when your database fills up the disk and won't start anymore. I've had
> this problem when using Nominatim, an open source address geocoder for
> OpenStreetMap/
>
> There are several solutions to this, but I wanted a way to fix index
> bloat while still being able to use the database as a production
> database, so I wrote pgindexrebuild:
>
>     https://github.com/rory/pgindexrebuild

Sounds promising.
You might want to post that to -announce as well?

Cheers,
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Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
RHCE/SCLA

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Email: gunnar.bluth@pro-open.de
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