Mark Steben wrote:
> I would like to vacuum full pg_attribute and some other postgres infrastructure tables to eliminate bloat.
> Could you please confirm that the recommended method to do this is to
> stop postgres, restart in single user mode, and issue the vacuum command?
That is not necessary. Just run the VACUUM (FULL) as superuser.
Concurrent access to pg_attribute will be blocked, which means that
the database is pretty much unusable, but you don't need single
user mode.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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