There shouldn't be any need to vacuum the template database. It's vacuumed
at the end of initdb and one usually doesn't make any great changes to it
afterwards.
On 2000-01-12, Christopher L. Davis mentioned:
> Sorry if this is very basic, but I have searched through the archives and
> saw mention in a message that vacuuming template1 caused problems. So I
> just wanted to be sure. Is it necessary to vacuum the template1 database?
> I am writing a script to backup and then vacuum my database, but wondered
> if I should include a command for vacuuming template1 in addition. I am
> running version 6.4. And should the recommendation change for the current
> version?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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