Re: Running vacuum on cron

Hello Pedro,

Two solutions
1) Give access to PostgreSQL from root user and run commands from
/etc/crontab. Not secure.
2) su postgres and use the crontab command as explained in
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~forsberg/linux/cron.html

Best regards,
Jean-Michel POURE

Hi. Is there any way to put a vacuum and a vacuum analyze (the
>second does everything the first does? Or do I need to use both?) in a cron
>so that it is executed nightly?
>
> Thanks
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