On Montag, 18. April 2011, Scott Mead wrote:
> I've seen it, but catalog hacks always make me nervous. Anybody
> else have good / bad experience to share?
Hi,
yes, we used it to reduce massive bloat after a database split and
were very satisfied.
IIRC "vacuum full" mode rewrites the indexes as well.
There's a proposal about an alternative to pg_reorg on depesz' Blog:
http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2010/10/17/reduce-bloat-of-table-without-longexclusive-locks/
regards,
Jens