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vacuumdb(1) |
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vacuumdb − Clean and analyze a Postgres database
vacuumdb [ connection-options... ] [ [ -d ] dbname ] [ --analyze | -z ] [ --verbose | -v ] [ --table ’table [ ( column [,...] ) ]’ ]
vacuumdb [ connection-options... ] [ --all | -a ] [ --analyze | -z ] [ --verbose | -v ]
INPUTS
vacuumdb accepts the following command line arguments:
-d dbname
--dbname dbname
Specifies the name of the database to be cleaned or analyzed.
-z |
--analyze
Calculate statistics on the database for use by the optimizer.
-a |
--alldb
Vacuum all databases.
-v |
--verbose
Print detailed information during processing.
-t table [
(column [,...]) ]
--table table [ (column [,...])
]
Clean or analyze table only. Column names may be specified only in conjunction with the --analyze option.
Tip: If you specify columns to vacuum, you probably have to escape the parentheses from the shell.
vacuumdb
also accepts the following command line arguments for
connection parameters:
-h host
--host host
Specifies the hostname of the machine on which the postmaster is running. If host begins with a slash, it is used as the directory for the unix domain socket.
-p port
--port port
Specifies the Internet TCP/IP port or local Unix domain socket file extension on which the postmaster is listening for connections.
-U username
--username username
Username to connect as.
-W |
--password
Force password prompt.
-e |
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--echo |
Echo the commands that vacuumdb generates and sends to the backend. | ||
-q |
--quiet
Do not display a response.
OUTPUTS
VACUUM |
Everything went well. |
vacuumdb: Vacuum failed.
Something went wrong. vacuumdb is only a wrapper script. See VACUUM [vacuum(l)] and psql(1) for a detailed discussion of error messages and potential problems.
vacuumdb is a utility for cleaning a Postgres database. vacuumdb will also generate internal statistics used by the Postgres query optimizer.
vacuumdb is a shell script wrapper around the backend command VACUUM [vacuum(l)] via the Postgres interactive terminal psql(1). There is no effective difference between vacuuming databases via this or other methods. psql must be found by the script and a database server must be running at the targeted host. Also, any default settings and environment variables available to psql and the libpq front-end library do apply.
To clean the database test:
$ vacuumdb test
To analyze for the optimzer a database named bigdb:
$ vacuumdb --analyze bigdb
To analyze a single column bar in table foo in a database named xyzzy for the optimizer:
$ vacuumdb --analyze --verbose --table ’foo(bar)’ xyzzy
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