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<title>Routine Database Maintenance Tasks</title>

<para>

The other main category of maintenance task is periodic <quote>vacuuming</>

of the database. This activity is discussed in

<xref linkend="routine-vacuuming">. Closely related to thisis to update

<xref linkend="routine-vacuuming">. Closely related to thisupdating

the statistics that will be used by the query planner, as discussed in

<xref linkend="vacuum-for-statistics">.

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