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122 | 122 | failures. <command>REINDEX</command> provides a recovery method. |
123 | 123 | </para> |
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| 125 | + <para> |
| 126 | + <command>REINDEX</command> also removes certain dead index pages that |
| 127 | + can't be reclaimed any other way. See the "Routine Reindexing" |
| 128 | + section in the manual for more information. |
| 129 | + </para> |
| 130 | + |
125 | 131 | <para> |
126 | 132 | If you suspect corruption of an index on a user table, you can |
127 | 133 | simply rebuild that index, or all indexes on the table, using |
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