Re: vacuum v. vacuumdb

From: Gavin Hamill <gdh(at)laterooms(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuum v. vacuumdb
Date: 2007-01-05 21:14:55
Message-ID: 200701052114.55491.gdh@laterooms.com
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On Friday 05 January 2007 21:05, Erik Jones wrote:
> Quick question, when running a VACUUM query through the postmaster,
> does it use the external vacuumdb tool?

No, quite the opposite; the 'vacuumdb' simply invokes the VACUUM command in
the postmaster. vacuumdb along with reindexdb, createdb, createuser etc. are
simply commandline conveniences for common administrative tasks :)

Cheers,
Gavin.

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