Reindexing Concurrently

Posted on May 09, 2008

Index bloat can be a major pain in heavy OLTP databases. With Reindex being a blocking operation in Postgres, you can not reasonably reclaim index bloat in a large database by hand without going offline. Thus enter concurrentReindex.php. This PHP cli script will concurrently reindex all non-unique, non-system catalog indexes in a given database. I have only tested this against a Postgres 8.2 database, but it should work in theory against 8.2 or higher. Feedback, enhancements and patches welcome.

Filed under: PostgreSQL | Tagged with: PDO PHP PostgreSQL  | 0 comments

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