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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Kovacs <maxottovonstirlitz@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Do we need vacuuming when tables are regularly dropped?
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:42:00 -0400
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"Peter Kovacs" <maxottovonstirlitz@gmail.com> writes:
> It is not immediately clear from the documentation, but the VACUUM
> command also deals with the system catalogs as well, correct?

If it's run without any argument by a superuser, then yes.

(I think in recent versions we also allow a non-superuser database owner
to do this.)

			regards, tom lane



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