Vacuum and Vacuum analyze

I'm starting a new thread, apart from the one I started
earlier, just on this topic.

Should you run either (or both) of these every time you've
added data to the database? After you've added indexes
or keys? As I mention in my other email, I ran a query
immediately after I added the data and the response time
was dismal to say the least. After seeing that, I tried add-
ing a few new indexes in hopes of speeding up the query
but that didn't help matters, either. The response time was
just as bad (although, the new indexes did shave off a
millisecond or two).

But then, on the suggestion of two fellow list members, I
ran 'vacuum analyze' from the command line (even though
I had done that already, with no apparent effect, through the
pgAdminII interface but that's another topic) then executed
the query again. I was very happy to see that the rows were
returning in milliseconds as opposed to the (many) seconds
they were being returned previously.

So that begs the question (from a newbie), when should these
commands, 'vacuum' and 'vacuum analyze' be run and how
often?

thnx,
Christoph