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+<refentry id="SQL-REINDEX">
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle id="SQL-REINDEX-TITLE">
+ REINDEX
+ </refentrytitle>
+ <refmiscinfo>SQL - Language Statements</refmiscinfo>
+ </refmeta>
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>
+ REINDEX
+ </refname>
+ <refpurpose>
+ Recover corrupted system indexes under standalone Postgres
+ </refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <refsynopsisdivinfo>
+ <date>2000-03-30</date>
+ </refsynopsisdivinfo>
+ <synopsis>
+REINDEX { TABLE | DATABASE | INDEX } <replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable> [ FORCE ]
+ </synopsis>
+
+ <refsect2 id="R2-SQL-REINDEX-1">
+ <refsect2info>
+ <date>2000-03-30</date>
+ </refsect2info>
+ <title>
+ Inputs
+ </title>
+ <para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>TABLE</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Recreate all indexes of a specfied table.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>DATABASE</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Recreate all system indexes of a specfied database.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>INDEX</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Recreate a specfied index.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The name of the specific table/database/index to be be reindexed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>FORCE</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Recreate indexes forcedly. Without this keyword REINDEX does
+ nothing unless target indexes are invalidated.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
+ </refsect2>
+
+ <refsect2 id="R2-SQL-REINDEX-2">
+ <refsect2info>
+ <date>2000-03-30</date>
+ </refsect2info>
+ <title>
+ Outputs
+ </title>
+ <para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><computeroutput>
+REINDEX
+ </computeroutput></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Message returned if the table is successfully reindexed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
+ </refsect2>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1 id="R1-SQL-REINDEX-1">
+ <refsect1info>
+ <date>2000-03-30</date>
+ </refsect1info>
+ <title>
+ Description
+ </title>
+ <para>
+ <command>REINDEX</command> is used to recover corrupted system indexes.
+ In order to run REINDEX command,Postmaster must be shutdown and
+ standalone Postgres should be started instead with options -O and
+ -P(an option to ignore system indexes). Note that we couldn't rely
+ on system indexes for the recovery of system indexes.
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 id="R1-SQL-REINDEX-2">
+ <title>
+ Usage
+ </title>
+ <para>
+ Recreate the table <literal>mytable</literal>:
+
+ <programlisting>
+ REINDEX TABLE mytable;
+ </programlisting>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Some more examples:
+
+ <programlisting>
+REINDEX DATABASE my_database FORCE;
+REINDEX INDEX my_index;
+ </programlisting>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 id="R1-SQL-REINDEX-3">
+ <title>
+ Compatibility
+ </title>
+
+ <refsect2 id="R2-SQL-REINDEX-4">
+ <refsect2info>
+ <date>2000-03-30</date>
+ </refsect2info>
+ <title>
+ SQL92
+ </title>
+ <para>
+ There is no <command>REINDEX</command> in <acronym>SQL92</acronym>.
+ </para>
+ </refsect2>
+ </refsect1>
+</refentry>
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