Re: Extreme bloating of intarray GiST indexes

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:

> I'm currently looking at a database which has some extreme bloating of
> intarray GiST indexes.  As in 1000% bloating in only a few months.  This
> is not a particularly high-transaction-rate database, so the bloating is
> a little surprising; I can only explain it if vacuum wasn't cleaning the
> indexes at all, and maybe not even then.
>
> We're currently instrumenting the database so that we can collect a bit
> more data on update activity, but in the meantime, has anyone seen
> anything like this?


What opclass is used for GiST index: gist__int_ops or gist__intbig_ops?
Do you take into account that gist__int_ops is very inefficient for large
datasets?

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Alexander Korotkov.