is it cool to restart servers as preventive maintenance? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kiriakos Georgiou
Subject is it cool to restart servers as preventive maintenance?
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Hello,

Is it accepted practice to restart a production database on a regular basis (e.g.: once a month) ?

In the last 12 months I have noticed 3-4 instances of database flakiness that is cured by restarting.
I’ve been using PostgreSQL since 2007 and I haven’t seen such issues requiring a reboot, but on my current project we
dosome rather heavy duty PostGIS analysis that apparently stresses the system enough to occasionally cause this (that’s
mytheory anyway.)  I’m beginning to seriously consider restarting servers on a monthly basis. 

regards,
Kiriakos Georgiou

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