Re: vacuum schema

From: Thomas F(dot)O'Connell <tfo(at)sitening(dot)com>
To: Josh Close <narshe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: POSTGRES <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: vacuum schema
Date: 2004-10-19 18:21:14
Message-ID: A9681EFF-21FB-11D9-A5E5-000D93AE0944@sitening.com
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Sure. The system tables can be accessed via SQL.

I frequently use the output of psql's hidden queries to glean more
information about postgres internals for needs like yours where
postgres has the information but not the interface to accomplish a
specific task.

-tfo

On Oct 19, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Josh Close wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:48:34 -0500, Thomas F. O'Connell
> <tfo(at)sitening(dot)com> wrote:
>> Ah, yes. You're right.
>>
>> Presumably you could use the hidden query from \dn in psql to get the
>> tables necessary for a script. That's the next best thing I can think
>> of.
>
> I wrote a script to do the vacumming. I just have a config file where
> you can list the tables you want vacuumed.
>
> Can you use those tables via normal sql? It would be nice to do that
> via sql.
>
> -Josh

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