Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99A137BD93 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:01:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39571-05 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:01:51 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CFFA37BABD for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:01:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so684764nfi.23 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:01:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=LLp4qEoLe+Q/qWPY5Ng7kTPknPSczq/rDBiCAwmXlTI=; b=bBjZ24OZb2c81LKBy/ycJ60p2lPNPTfQuM0xFPmjpZT0uB6scy5DdSD/U3AuqQrwL5 niKGDI9IBOd/omNY0W6sQtjEwoEkrEmlSOUFx6g21TRac6ZLxrLtRZD21bxDuMTx4C2/ yHDGpZvXgP32l/n0E5z7oDeKPNabuRugPAYwo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=B8TYO67LTI2lnkVsPVyxpRVcMNYwVh23TkXWDVymimfSlGqoP7Z8uZXNr4Ub+k/hz7 yMVUnHiPKTmYcigd28mfFSqsFcbjBJXgjvYHPrGYYunGj+2CGwlbq8LRTAzmX1YyR3Xl DI9p5cwrIAruw4S639YV411SwLZP9yBvOVfg8= Received: by 10.210.141.4 with SMTP id o4mr6181955ebd.154.1222693309481; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.43.4 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:01:49 +0200 From: "Peter Kovacs" To: "Tom Lane" Subject: Re: Do we need vacuuming when tables are regularly dropped? Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <10223.1222692120@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9815.1222690583@sss.pgh.pa.us> <10223.1222692120@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Google-Sender-Auth: c91ad207ea7a8fed X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200809/333 X-Sequence-Number: 30426 Thank you! Peter On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > "Peter Kovacs" 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 >