Re: Order of Daily VACUUM, CLUSTER, REINDEX

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Leonardo F <m_lists(at)yahoo(dot)it>
Cc: APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Order of Daily VACUUM, CLUSTER, REINDEX
Date: 2010-03-19 17:05:17
Message-ID: 20100319170517.GB3301@alvh.no-ip.org
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Leonardo F escribió:
> > VACUUM ANALYZE;
> > CLUSTER;
> > REINDEX DATABASE "database";
>
> ANALYZE has to go after CLUSTER; and CLUSTER already
> vacuums the tables (I'm not 100% sure though). CLUSTER also
> reindexes the whole table, so there's no need for another REINDEX.
>
> I think the right way of doing it would be:
>
> CLUSTER;
> ANALYZE; (no "vacuum analyze", just "analyze").

Note that cluster only clusters tables that have been previously
clustered. So you still need to vacuum tables that are not clustered.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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