Chapter 9. Regular Maintenance
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Controlling automatic database maintenance
- Avoiding auto-freezing and page corruptions
- Avoiding transaction wraparound
- Removing old prepared transactions
- Actions for heavy users of temporary tables
- Identifying and fixing bloated tables and indexes
- Maintaining indexes
- Adding a constraint without checking existing rows
- Finding unused indexes
- Carefully removing unwanted indexes
- Planning maintenance
Introduction
PostgreSQL prefers regular maintenance, and there is a recipe discussing planning maintenance (the last one).
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