Re: running vacuum in scripts - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: running vacuum in scripts
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Msg-id 20050920225937.GB7630@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: running vacuum in scripts  ("Belinda M. Giardine" <giardine@bio.cse.psu.edu>)
Responses Re: running vacuum in scripts
List pgsql-general
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:04:44AM -0400, Belinda M. Giardine wrote:
> > For vacuuming, you could try to use the autovacuum daemon, it is
> > included in the contrib part of postgres. If you installed from source,
> > you will likely need to separately install autovacuum, if you installed
> > a prepackaged postgres, chances are that you already have the
> > pg_autovacuum executable installed. It is fairly easy to set up.
>
> Thanks.  I didn't find autovacuum anywhere in our install.  It was done
> from source so I sent a request to the sysadmin.  It does sound like what
> I was looking for.

http://cvs.distributed.net/viewcvs.cgi/stats-sql/tools/ has some scripts
you might find useful for running autovacuum.
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