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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Routine Database Maintenance Tasks</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.2.24 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Server Administration" HREF="admin.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Character Set Support" HREF="multibyte.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Routine Vacuuming" HREF="routine-vacuuming.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2017-11-06T22:43:11"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >PostgreSQL 9.2.24 Documentation</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Character Set Support" HREF="multibyte.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="admin.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Routine Vacuuming" HREF="routine-vacuuming.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="MAINTENANCE" ></A >Chapter 23. Routine Database Maintenance Tasks</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >23.1. <A HREF="routine-vacuuming.html" >Routine Vacuuming</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >23.1.1. <A HREF="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-BASICS" >Vacuuming Basics</A ></DT ><DT >23.1.2. <A HREF="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-SPACE-RECOVERY" >Recovering Disk Space</A ></DT ><DT >23.1.3. <A HREF="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-STATISTICS" >Updating Planner Statistics</A ></DT ><DT >23.1.4. <A HREF="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-VISIBILITY-MAP" >Updating The Visibility Map</A ></DT ><DT >23.1.5. <A HREF="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAROUND" >Preventing Transaction ID Wraparound Failures</A ></DT ><DT >23.1.6. <A HREF="routine-vacuuming.html#AUTOVACUUM" >The Autovacuum Daemon</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >23.2. <A HREF="routine-reindex.html" >Routine Reindexing</A ></DT ><DT >23.3. <A HREF="logfile-maintenance.html" >Log File Maintenance</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P > <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN >, like any database software, requires that certain tasks be performed regularly to achieve optimum performance. The tasks discussed here are <SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >required</I ></SPAN >, but they are repetitive in nature and can easily be automated using standard tools such as <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >cron</SPAN > scripts or Windows' <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Task Scheduler</SPAN >. It is the database administrator's responsibility to set up appropriate scripts, and to check that they execute successfully. </P ><P > One obvious maintenance task is the creation of backup copies of the data on a regular schedule. Without a recent backup, you have no chance of recovery after a catastrophe (disk failure, fire, mistakenly dropping a critical table, etc.). The backup and recovery mechanisms available in <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > are discussed at length in <A HREF="backup.html" >Chapter 24</A >. </P ><P > The other main category of maintenance task is periodic <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"vacuuming"</SPAN > of the database. This activity is discussed in <A HREF="routine-vacuuming.html" >Section 23.1</A >. Closely related to this is updating the statistics that will be used by the query planner, as discussed in <A HREF="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-STATISTICS" >Section 23.1.3</A >. </P ><P > Another task that might need periodic attention is log file management. This is discussed in <A HREF="logfile-maintenance.html" >Section 23.3</A >. </P ><P > <A HREF="https://bucardo.org/check_postgres/" TARGET="_top" ><SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >check_postgres</SPAN ></A > is available for monitoring database health and reporting unusual conditions. <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >check_postgres</SPAN > integrates with Nagios and MRTG, but can be run standalone too. </P ><P > <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > is low-maintenance compared to some other database management systems. 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