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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2002-06-23 03:45:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2002-06-23 03:45:15 +0000 |
| commit | a36711c36874c3b23c3d416bbe1844dffe331ffe (patch) | |
| tree | b1a7f4944e363a24cb49adc11dfbd211b37b49f1 /doc/src | |
| parent | 30be6c23c123d367542f1cc7e1b11cd11e898366 (diff) | |
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Mention REINDEX can be used for disk space reclaimation too.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml index 95830ebd420..70dbf636b61 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml,v 1.11 2002/04/23 02:07:16 tgl Exp $ +$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml,v 1.12 2002/06/23 03:45:15 momjian Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ REINDEX </para> <para> + <command>REINDEX</command> also removes certain dead index pages that + can't be reclaimed any other way. See the "Routine Reindexing" + section in the manual for more information. + </para> + + <para> If you suspect corruption of an index on a user table, you can simply rebuild that index, or all indexes on the table, using <command>REINDEX INDEX</command> or <command>REINDEX TABLE</command>. |