On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> 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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Thanks, yes these scripts do look useful.
Belinda
