Henrik wrote:
> I think I have a clue why its so off. We update a value in that table about
> 2 - 3 million times per night and as update creates a new row it becomes
> bloated pretty fast. The table hade a size of 765 MB including indexes and
> after vacuum full and reindex it went down to 80kB... I guess I need
> routine reindex on this table. Thank god is not big. :)
I suggest you put a lone VACUUM on that table in cron, say once every 5
minutes, and you should be fine. You shouldn't need a reindex at all.
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