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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/html/maintenance.html b/doc/src/sgml/html/maintenance.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bae20c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/sgml/html/maintenance.html @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Chapter 25. Routine Database Maintenance Tasks</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="multibyte.html" title="24.3. Character Set Support" /><link rel="next" href="routine-vacuuming.html" title="25.1. Routine Vacuuming" /></head><body id="docContent" class="container-fluid col-10"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">Chapter 25. Routine Database Maintenance Tasks</th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="multibyte.html" title="24.3. Character Set Support">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="admin.html" title="Part III. Server Administration">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Part III. Server Administration</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 16.2 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="routine-vacuuming.html" title="25.1. Routine Vacuuming">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter" id="MAINTENANCE"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title">Chapter 25. Routine Database Maintenance Tasks</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="routine-vacuuming.html">25.1. Routine Vacuuming</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-BASICS">25.1.1. Vacuuming Basics</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-SPACE-RECOVERY">25.1.2. Recovering Disk Space</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-STATISTICS">25.1.3. Updating Planner Statistics</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-VISIBILITY-MAP">25.1.4. Updating the Visibility Map</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAROUND">25.1.5. Preventing Transaction ID Wraparound Failures</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="routine-vacuuming.html#AUTOVACUUM">25.1.6. The Autovacuum Daemon</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="routine-reindex.html">25.2. Routine Reindexing</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="logfile-maintenance.html">25.3. Log File Maintenance</a></span></dt></dl></div><a id="id-1.6.12.2" class="indexterm"></a><a id="id-1.6.12.3" class="indexterm"></a><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"><em>required</em></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 class="xref" href="backup.html" title="Chapter 26. Backup and Restore">Chapter 26</a>. + </p><p> + The other main category of maintenance task is periodic <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">vacuuming</span>”</span> + of the database. This activity is discussed in + <a class="xref" href="routine-vacuuming.html" title="25.1. Routine Vacuuming">Section 25.1</a>. Closely related to this is updating + the statistics that will be used by the query planner, as discussed in + <a class="xref" href="routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-STATISTICS" title="25.1.3. Updating Planner Statistics">Section 25.1.3</a>. + </p><p> + Another task that might need periodic attention is log file management. + This is discussed in <a class="xref" href="logfile-maintenance.html" title="25.3. Log File Maintenance">Section 25.3</a>. + </p><p> + <a class="ulink" 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. Nonetheless, + appropriate attention to these tasks will go far towards ensuring a + pleasant and productive experience with the system. + </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="multibyte.html" title="24.3. Character Set Support">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="admin.html" title="Part III. Server Administration">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="routine-vacuuming.html" title="25.1. Routine Vacuuming">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">24.3. Character Set Support </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 16.2 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 25.1. Routine Vacuuming</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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