Re: vacuum of pg_attribute and other infrastructure tables

Thank you for the clarification.

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 12:10 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
wrote:

> Mark Steben wrote:
> > I would like to vacuum full pg_attribute and some other postgres
> infrastructure tables to eliminate bloat.
> > Could you please confirm that the recommended method to do this is to
> > stop postgres, restart in single user mode, and issue the vacuum command?
>
> That is not necessary. Just run the VACUUM (FULL) as superuser.
>
> Concurrent access to pg_attribute will be blocked, which means that
> the database is pretty much unusable, but you don't need single
> user mode.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
> --
> Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com
>
>

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