Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:58:25AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > > > Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:
> > > >> Do you think we should replace them all with a utility called pg_maintain
> > > >> that can do all of them?
> > >
> > > > If you ask me, we could get rid of them completely because
> > > > for d in $(psql -l --somthing); do vacuum $d; done
> > > > seems perfectly fine.
> > >
> > > If you have a real shell (and know how to use it), sure. Is such a
> > > solution acceptable to all those Windows users we're hoping to attract?
>
> I think an acceptable solution to Windows users is some kind of
> "service" that can run whatever is needed, whenever is needed. Those
> poor Windows users don't have cron, remember. IMHO this kind of tool is
> part of the Windows administration package and probably doesn't belong
> in the main distribution.
>
> > That's why I am thinking of some wrapper that will loop through the
> > databases and run psql commands.
>
> Written on what language?
Written in C as a command-line utility.
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