| From: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
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| To: | John Sidney-Woollett <johnsw(at)wardbrook(dot)com> |
| Cc: | postgres general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: vacuum confusion |
| Date: | 2005-02-11 10:02:10 |
| Message-ID: | 420C82A2.8090201@archonet.com |
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John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
> Ah.., no we're not vacuuming template0 or 1.
>
> I didn't realise that the transaction ID would be stored here - I
> assumed that they'd be in our database.
>
> Do I need to need to (plain) vacuum, or vacuum full these template0 and
> template1? And is this something that can be done once a week rather
> than every night (like our main database)?
Ah! Found the section of the manuals - see "Routine Database Maintenance
Tasks" for details.
AFAIK it's a simple vacuum and once a week is more than enough. The
manual recommends once every 500million transactions, though you can
leave it longer.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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