Re: DB is slow until DB is reloaded

Steve Crawford wrote:
> Madison Kelly wrote:
>>
>>   I wanted to get ahead of the problem, hence my question here. :)
>> I've set this to run at night ('iwt' being the DB in question):
>>
>> su postgres -c "psql iwt -c \"VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE\"
>
> And why not the vacuumdb command?:
>
> su postgres -c "vacuumdb --analyze --verbose iwt"
>
>
> But this is duct-tape and bailing-wire. You REALLY need to make sure
> that autovacuum is running - you are likely to have much better results
> with less pain.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve

As for why '-c ...', I guess it was just a matter of which command came
to mind first. :) Is there a particular benefit to using the 'vacuumdb'
wrapper?

As for autovacuum, I assumed (yes, I know) that all v8.x releases
enabled it by default. How would I confirm that it's running or not?

Madi