On Mon, 6 May 2002, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> > > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> > > Well, my keys aren't changing and the index is growing like they are.
> > >>
> > >> Could we see the exact details of your test case?
> >
> > > Sure. I think I posted most of it here already...
> >
> > Okay, what I see is that the index on the integer column behaves like I
> > would expect: you can update, vacuum, update, vacuum, and it doesn't get
> > bigger.
>
> Yes, it does get bigger, but only with use, not vacuum full.
>
> It doesn't look like the index on the text column is getting reused
> either. Is that because I'm update a lot of rows with a single update
> statement? would it be reused if I was changing one row at a time and
> commiting it?
Correction, that should be "index on the int4 column"
