From a36711c36874c3b23c3d416bbe1844dffe331ffe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 03:45:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Mention REINDEX can be used for disk space reclaimation too.
---
doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml
index 95830ebd420..70dbf636b61 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml,v 1.11 2002/04/23 02:07:16 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml,v 1.12 2002/06/23 03:45:15 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ REINDEX
failures. <command>REINDEX</command> provides a recovery method.
</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>REINDEX</command> also removes certain dead index pages that
+ can't be reclaimed any other way. See the "Routine Reindexing"
+ section in the manual for more information.
+ </para>
+
<para>
If you suspect corruption of an index on a user table, you can
simply rebuild that index, or all indexes on the table, using
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