>Tore,
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>>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.
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>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.
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>regards
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>thomas

Well, for me it's not so interesting whether a search takes 0.01 millisecond or 0.02 milliseconds.....! I have timed real life data searches before and after a reindex, and the difference is minimal. Given enough RAM and fast hardware, my conclusion is that a reindex is practically a waste of time. But "your milage may vary".