Re: Recommend dba maintenance tasks on a regular bases

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Barbara Stephenson wrote:

> 1- pg_dump - binary dump every midday and nightly
> 2 - auto vacuum
> 3- rotate data logs

You should also consider running a script which does a VACUUM VERBOSE weekly
or twice monthly and emails you the last 8 lines of output. This will allow
you to keep your FSM settings up to date.

Jim Nasby's article here: http://decibel.org/~decibel/pervasive/fsm.html has
some good info about the Free Space Map if you're not familiar with it.

In addition, it's probably worth setting log_min_duration_statement to
something like 500 or 1000 (500ms or 1s) so that you log slow queries. Note
that 500ms is just an example, set it to a value you consider slow so that it
will log your slow queries. Then, after you've gathered some
data, run it through pgfouine. http://pgfouine.projects.postgresql.org/

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