Re: Thoughts on maintaining 7.3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Thoughts on maintaining 7.3
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Msg-id 2995.1065238617@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Thoughts on maintaining 7.3  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Though the new code will put empty index pages into the free-space map,
> will it also shrink the index file to remove those pages?

If there are free pages at the end, yes --- but it won't move pages
around.  This is about the same story as for plain VACUUM ...
        regards, tom lane


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