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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:53:29 -0800
From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
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To: Madison Kelly <linux@alteeve.com>
CC: Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info>, Gary Doades <gpd@gpdnet.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: DB is slow until DB is reloaded
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Madison Kelly wrote:
>
>   I wanted to get ahead of the problem, hence my question here. :) 
> I've set this to run at night ('iwt' being the DB in question):
>
> su postgres -c "psql iwt -c \"VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE\" 

And why not the vacuumdb command?:

su postgres -c "vacuumdb --analyze --verbose iwt"


But this is duct-tape and bailing-wire. You REALLY need to make sure 
that autovacuum is running - you are likely to have much better results 
with less pain.

Cheers,
Steve