2000-11-11 vacuumdb 1 Application 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 option. 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 --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 and for a detailed discussion of error messages and potential problems. Description 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 via the Postgres interactive terminal . 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. Usage 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