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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