Re: A tale of two similar databases

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: kishore(dot)sainath(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A tale of two similar databases
Date: 2006-01-19 22:40:16
Message-ID: 20060119224015.GA16152@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:17:41PM -0800, kishore(dot)sainath(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> I haven't vacuum/analysed the D2 database or for that matter D1.
> In fact I have never used VACUUM before.
> Maybe that is the problem.
>
> What are the benefits of the VACUUM command in PostgreSQL?

See the section on vacuuming in "Routine Database Maintenance Tasks"
in the documentation:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/routine-vacuuming.html

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Michael Fuhr

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