On 21 Jul 2000 21:42 Joe Slag wrote:
>I see in the docs the suggestion:
>
> We recommend that active production databases be VACUUMM-ed nightly
>
>Is this how people tend to do their vacuuming? Does anyone do
programmatic
>vacuums instead of / in addition to a nightly run? Is vacuuming mainly
>necessary after big deletes, or are there other common situations
>requiring it?
I run vacuum as part of a cron job each month. My databases are small and
90% of the activity is SELECTs.
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