Re: vacuum v. vacuumdb - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gavin Hamill
Subject Re: vacuum v. vacuumdb
Date
Msg-id 200701052114.55491.gdh@laterooms.com
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In response to vacuum v. vacuumdb  (Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Friday 05 January 2007 21:05, Erik Jones wrote:
> Quick question,  when running a VACUUM query through the postmaster,
> does it use the external vacuumdb tool?

No, quite the opposite; the 'vacuumdb' simply invokes the VACUUM command in
the postmaster. vacuumdb along with reindexdb, createdb, createuser etc. are
simply commandline conveniences for common administrative tasks :)

Cheers,
Gavin.

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