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Mention REINDEX can be used for disk space reclaimation too.
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml,v 1.11 2002/04/23 02:07:16 tgl Exp $
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PostgreSQL documentation
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failures. <command>REINDEX</command> provides a recovery method.
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<command>REINDEX</command> also removes certain dead index pages that
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can't be reclaimed any other way. See the "Routine Reindexing"
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section in the manual for more information.
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If you suspect corruption of an index on a user table, you can
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simply rebuild that index, or all indexes on the table, using

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