REINDEX

Description

Rebuilds an index using the data stored in the index's table, replacing the old copy of the index.

There are several scenarios in which REINDEX can be used:

• An index has become corrupted, and no longer contains valid data.
• An index has become "bloated", that is, it contains many empty or nearly-empty pages.
• You have altered a storage parameter (such as a fill factor) for an index, and wish that the change takes full effect.
• An index build with the CONCURRENTLY option failed, leaving an "invalid" index.

Precautions

• REINDEX DATABASE and REINDEX SYSTEM type cannot be performed in transaction blocks. Currently, REINDEX operations cannot be performed on materialized views.
• If the index contains the lpi_parallel_method option and the value is PARTITION, and the parallel_workers value of the index's table is greater than 0, the index cannot be rebuilt in parallel. If the index does not contain the lpi_parallel_method option or the value of the option is set to AUTO, page-level parallel index is rebuilt by default. For details, see LPI_PARALLEL_METHOD.

Syntax

• Rebuild a general index.

  REINDEX { INDEX | TABLE | DATABASE | SYSTEM } [CONCURRENTLY] name [ FORCE ];

• Rebuild the index and convert the type.

  1	REINDEX [ ( option [, ...] ) ] { INDEX } [ CONCURRENTLY ] name [ FORCE ];

  

• Rebuild an index partition.

  REINDEX { INDEX | TABLE} name
      PARTITION partition_name [ FORCE ];

Parameters

• INDEX

  Rebuilds the specified index.

• TABLE

  Rebuilds all indexes of a specified table. If a table has a TOAST table, the table will also be reindexed. If an index on the table has been invalidated by running alter unusable, the index cannot be rebuilt. Indexes in the TOAST table cannot be rebuilt when specifying the CONCURRENTLY option.

• DATABASE

  Rebuilds all indexes within the current database. Indexes in the TOAST table within the current database cannot be rebuilt when specifying the CONCURRENTLY option.

• SYSTEM

  Rebuilds all indexes on system catalogs within the current database. Indexes on user tables are not processed.

• option

  Currently, only CROSSBUCKET is supported, and the value can only be ON or OFF. This parameter is used to determine whether the index of a hash bucket table is converted to a cross-bucket index (CBI) or local-bucket index (LBI). This conversion supports only the indexes on a distributed hash bucket table and does not support GSIs.

• CONCURRENTLY

  Rebuilds an index (with ShareUpdateExclusiveLock) in non-blocking DML mode. When an index is rebuilt, other statements cannot access the table on which the index depends. If this keyword is specified, DML is not blocked during the recreation. Indexes in system catalogs cannot be rebuilt online. REINDEX INTERNAL TABLE CONCURRENTLY, REINDEX SYSTEM CONCURRENTLY, and REINDEX INVALID INDEX CONCURRENTLY are not supported. When REINDEX DATABASE CONCURRENTLY is executed, all indexes on user tables in the current database are rebuilt online (indexes on system catalogs are not processed). REINDEX CONCURRENTLY cannot be executed within a transaction. Online index rebuilding supports only B-tree and UB-tree indexes, common indexes, global indexes, and local indexes. PCR UB-tree indexes, level-2 partitions, and GSIs are not supported. Online concurrent index rebuilding supports only common indexes, global indexes, and local indexes of Astore and Ustore. Other online index rebuilding specifications are inherited from the current version. If online index rebuilding fails, the system automatically clears new indexes to prevent resource occupation in scenarios such as manual cancellation, duplicate unique index key values, insufficient resources, thread startup failure, and lock timeout. If the system cannot automatically clear invalid new indexes (for example, the database breaks down, PATAL, or PANIC), you need to manually clear invalid new indexes (using the DROP INDEX statement) and temporary tables (using the DROP TABLE statement) as soon as possible to prevent more resources from being occupied. Generally, the extension of an invalid index name is _ccnew. The execution of REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY adds a four-level session lock to the table and its first several phases are similar to those of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Therefore, the execution may be suspended or deadlocked, which is similar to that of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. For example, if two sessions perform the REINDEX CONCURRENTLY operation on the same index or table at the same time, a deadlock occurs. For details, see CONCURRENTLY.

  

  This keyword is specified when an index is rebuilt. For Astore, you need to complete two full table scans for building. During the first scan, a new index is created without blocking read and write operations. During the second scan, the changes in the first scan are merged and updated. For Ustore, you need to complete a full table scan. During the scan, data generated by concurrent DML operations is inserted into the temporary table named index_oid_cctmp. After the scan is complete, you merge the temporary table to the new index suffixed with _ccnew{n}, delete the temporary table, exchange the old and new indexes, mark the old index as dead, enable the new index, and rebuild the index.

• name

  Specifies the name of the index, table, or database whose index needs to be rebuilt. Tables and indexes can be schema-qualified.

  

  REINDEX DATABASE and SYSTEM can create indexes for only the current database. Therefore, name must be the same as the current database name.

• FORCE

  Discarded parameter. It is currently reserved for compatibility with earlier versions.

• partition_name

  Specifies the name of the partition or index partition to be rebuilt.

  Value range:

  • If REINDEX INDEX is used, specify the name of an index partition.
  • If it is REINDEX TABLE, specify the name of a partition.

REINDEX DATABASE and REINDEX SYSTEM type cannot be performed in transaction blocks.

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-- Create the table tbl_test and insert data into the tables.
gaussdb=# CREATE TABLE tbl_test(c1 int,c2 varchar);
gaussdb=# INSERT INTO tbl_test VALUES (1, 'AAAAAAA'),(5, 'AAAAAAB'),(10, 'AAAAAAC');

-- Create an index and check the index size.
gaussdb=# CREATE INDEX idx_test_c1 ON tbl_test(c1);
gaussdb=# SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('idx_test_c1')) AS size;
 size  
-------
 64 kB
(1 row)

-- Insert 10,000 data records and then delete the data. It is found that the index becomes larger.
gaussdb=# INSERT INTO tbl_test VALUES (generate_series(1,10000),'test');
gaussdb=# DELETE FROM tbl_test WHERE c2 = 'test';
gaussdb=# SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('idx_test_c1')) AS size;
  size  
--------
 376 kB
(1 row)

-- After an independent index is rebuilt, the index size is restored to the initial size.
gaussdb=# REINDEX INDEX idx_test_c1;
gaussdb=# SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('idx_test_c1')) AS size;
 size  
-------
 64 kB
(1 row)

-- Rebuild a single index online.
gaussdb=# REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY idx_test_c1;

-- Rebuild all indexes in the table tbl_test.
gaussdb=# REINDEX TABLE tbl_test;

-- Rebuild all indexes in the table tbl_test online.
gaussdb=# REINDEX TABLE CONCURRENTLY tbl_test;

-- Delete the tbl_test table.
gaussdb=# DROP TABLE tbl_test;

Suggestions

• INTERNAL TABLE

  This scenario is used for fault recovery. You are advised not to perform concurrent operations.

• DATABASE

  You are not allowed to reindex databases in transactions.

• SYSTEM

  You are not allowed to reindex system catalogs in transactions.