How do you handle massive table bloat in mission-critical tables without downtime?

Expert PostgreSQL

Answer

Use pg_repack to rebuild tables and indexes online with shadow copies. Alternatively rebuild tables on replicas via logical replication and fail over. VACUUM FULL is avoided due to locking.

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