Tore,

>If you need to do this from a normal form ment for day-to-day use, you have a serious design problem and should reconsider your design. Packing and reindexing should only be done very rarely, typically once or twice per year. In my case I only pack and reindex when we have a new year.

Partially disagree - IF your indexed values are added in a nearly random order that might be - but almost always where you input data already preprocessed you get the records ordered, and after inserting them a reindex might be helpful to better balance your btrees... Bites me heavily, as I batch-insert host data, but the principle remains.

regards

thomas