Re: Database-wide VACUUM ANALYZE

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Steven Flatt wrote:

> On 6/21/07, Francisco Reyes <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> Are you on FreeBSD by any chance?
>>
>> I think the FreeBSD port by default installs a script that does a daily
>> vacuum.
>
>
> Yes, FreeBSD. Do you know what script that is? And it does a db-wide
> VACUUM ANALYZE every day?! That is certainly not necessary, and in fact,
> costly for us.
>
> Hmmm... I wonder why this would just start now, three days ago. Everything
> seemed to be normal for the last two weeks.
>
The current FreeBSD port places the script in:

/usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/502.pgsql

And it can be controlled from /etc/periodic.conf

See the top of that script.

LER

> Steve
>

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