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Subject: VACUUM not mentioned in administrator's guide!?
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 20:31:26 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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I was bemused to discover just now that nowhere in the Administrator's
Guide is there any discussion of VACUUM and the need for it to be run
routinely.  No wonder people don't do it :-(

Seems like we need a chapter about "routine maintenance tasks".

			regards, tom lane