VACUUM

I am trying to set up my cron job to run the appropriate vacuums on our database. I understand from reading the documentation that regular vacuums, vacuum full, and vacuum analyze are all important. Can someone assist in telling me what is the most efficient order? I would assume that analyze should be done once the inaccessible rows are released within the table and then to the OS?

We currently have a small amount of data in our database so my plan was to do all vacuums on the entire database.

Also, I read that reindexing was important. Does this need to be done as frequently as the vacuums? Is it only done on a per table basis? or can you reindex the entire database?

Thanks
Jodi
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Jodi L Kanter
BioInformatics Database Administrator
University of Virginia
(434) 924-2846
jkanter(at)virginia(dot)edu