On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:24 AM, leaf_yxj <leaf_yxj@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I was asked to write a security definer function to make other user can issue > vacuum and analyze command? Friends in this community said vacuum doesn't > work inside the function or multi command. How about analyze. I know vacuum > is something much like oracle shrink which is used to reorganize the space > in the disk. Analyze is used to collect the statistic info of the table. > Does analyze works in Function or mulit-commands? There's an easy way to find out. Try it, and see if you get an error back! http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You may find that it isn't possible. If so, you may want to consider a non-SQL solution; for instance, a shell script that invokes vacuum/analyze. Chris Angelico -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general