Re: running vacuum in scripts

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Csaba Nagy wrote:

> You could use the system wide crontab, which is configured via
> /etc/crontab, and there you can specify what user should execute the
> command, without needing passwords. The system wide crontab is executed
> as root and it will su to the user you specify.
>
> For vacuuming, you could try to use the autovacuum daemon, it is
> included in the contrib part of postgres. If you installed from source,
> you will likely need to separately install autovacuum, if you installed
> a prepackaged postgres, chances are that you already have the
> pg_autovacuum executable installed. It is fairly easy to set up.
>
> HTH,
> Csaba.
>
>

Thanks.  I didn't find autovacuum anywhere in our install.  It was done
from source so I sent a request to the sysadmin.  It does sound like what
I was looking for.

Belinda