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Index maintenance

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The Impact of Index Maintenance and Vacuuming on Heavily Loaded Systems

This chapter explores the effects of index maintenance and vacuuming on heavily loaded systems. It discusses the importance of monitoring and analyzing bloat in databases, the significance of index bloat in PostgreSQL databases, a specific problem related to query plans that can affect query performance over time, and the impact of bloat on index maintenance.

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