On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Csaba Nagy wrote: > You could use the system wide crontab, which is configured via > /etc/crontab, and there you can specify what user should execute the > command, without needing passwords. The system wide crontab is executed > as root and it will su to the user you specify. > > For vacuuming, you could try to use the autovacuum daemon, it is > included in the contrib part of postgres. If you installed from source, > you will likely need to separately install autovacuum, if you installed > a prepackaged postgres, chances are that you already have the > pg_autovacuum executable installed. It is fairly easy to set up. > > HTH, > Csaba. > > Thanks. I didn't find autovacuum anywhere in our install. It was done from source so I sent a request to the sysadmin. It does sound like what I was looking for. Belinda ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly