Re: VACUUM vs VACUUM ANALYZE

Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
To: Mark Coffman <mark@epilogue.net>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-10-18T23:49:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:33:06PM -0400, Mark Coffman wrote:
> I know the differences between VACUUM and VACUUM ANALYZE have been discussed
> before, but I'd like to know how you schedule your cleaning jobs.  Right now
> I do a
> 
> VACUUM
> VACUUM ANALYZE

vacuum analyze does a vacuum anyway, so you don't need both.

> every hour... it takes about 3 minutes to run both.  Should I run ANALYZE
> less often?

Here we do it once per day, though after a major set of updates i run it
manually. We're not under heavy load though.
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
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