Re: Predefined role pg_maintenance for VACUUM, ANALYZE, CHECKPOINT.

From: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Predefined role pg_maintenance for VACUUM, ANALYZE, CHECKPOINT.
Date: 2021-10-25 16:10:23
Message-ID: BA225AFF-7778-41C8-8B59-92B0C423BCF8@amazon.com
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On 10/24/21, 11:13 PM, "Jeff Davis" <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 21:32 +0000, Bossart, Nathan wrote:
>> My initial reaction was that members of pg_maintenance should be able
>> to do all of these things (VACUUM, ANALYZE, CLUSTER, REINDEX, and
>> CHECKPOINT).
>
> What about REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW? That seems more specific to a
> workload, but it's hard to draw a clear line between that and CLUSTER.

Hm. CLUSTER reorders the content of a table but does not change it.
REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW, on the other hand, does replace the
content. I think that's the sort of line I'd draw between REFRESH
MATERIALIZED VIEW and the other commands as well, so I'd leave it out
of pg_maintenance.

Nathan

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