Re: [SQL] Auto-Vacuum?

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Tim Perdue wrote:

> Just curious if anyone has written an vacuum shell script.
>

Just use cron:

00 01 * * * /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql shrevenet_users -c "vacuum;"
01 01 * * * /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql shrevenet_ftp -c "vacuum;"
02 01 * * * /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql shrevenet_counter -c "vacuum;"

etc. Also before I vacuum, I dump each night (never can be too safe :)

00 00 * * * /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump shrevenet_users > /usr/local/pgsql/backups/shrevenet_users.dump
01 00 * * * /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump shrevenet_ftp > /usr/local/pgsql/backups/shrevenet_ftp.dump
02 00 * * * /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump shrevenet_counter > /usr/local/pgsql/backups/shrevenet_counter.dump

> At this point, I have been going in weekly and issuing the VACUUM;
> command manually.
>
> Now that tons of records are being inserted hourly, I want to vacuum
> 1-2 times a day.
>
> I could do this pretty easily with a simple Java/JDBC proram, but
> would rather just have a shell script go into psql. Unfortunately, I
> know nothing about shell scripting.
>
> Any tips or samples are appreciated.
>
> Tim
>
>
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