RE: [GENERAL] vacuuming

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Rob den Boer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-pgsql-general@hub.org [mailto:owner-pgsql-general@hub.org]On
> > Behalf Of Brian
> > Sent: zondag 28 juni 1998 18:33
> > To: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
> > Subject: [GENERAL] vacuuming
>
> > Is it common practice to setup a cron job to vacuum your databases
> > nightly?  Do you just do something like:
>
>
> Every night I dump my database, and vacuum it afterwards.
> One thing to keep in mind that you don't want to do as root
> since pgsql doesn't like this.
> So you have to run cron as a db admin user. (give this user permission to
> use cron)

I have read "pgsql" doesn't like this, but I actually have several
databases that have granted permissions to root.  Will it give an error if
you vacuum as root?



>
> regards
> Rob den Boer
>
>

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