From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 03:45:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention REINDEX can be used for disk space reclaimation too.
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Mention REINDEX can be used for disk space reclaimation too.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml
index 95830ebd42..70dbf636b6 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml,v 1.11 2002/04/23 02:07:16 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml,v 1.12 2002/06/23 03:45:15 momjian Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ REINDEX
    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