Re: strange behavior (corruption?) of large production

Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> 
>>Since this database has many large, but static tables (i.e. new data is 
>>loaded each day, but the tables are partitioned into year-month tables), 
>>I'm thinking we can run VACUUM FREEZE on the whole database once, and 
>>then run VACUUM FREEZE periodically on just the tables that have had 
>>rows added since the last time -- is that correct?
> 
> That would work for the user tables, but the lesson to draw from this is
> not to forget about the system catalogs ...
> 

Right, I was just thinking about that too. Important safety tip :-)

Thanks again!

Joe