OWNER=xonstat
CONNECTION LIMIT=-1;
+If you intend to use the `drop_and_load.shl` script in the scripts folder, you may want to give
+the application user superuser within the database. To do that you can use the following command:
+
+ postgres=# alter user xonstat with superuser;
+
+When done, exit the psql prompt:
+
postgres=# \q
Next, as your regular system user, log into the newly created database
Do note that there are a few maintenance scripts that can be used
once the database begins accumulating data. These can be found in
-the scripts subdirectory. A summary of what they do follows:
+the scripts subdirectory and are intended to be implemented as cron jobs.
+A summary of what they do follows:
update\_elos.sql - will decrease player elo records by one point
day for every day after 30 days of inactivity
update\_ranks.sql - will populate the player\_ranks table each day
according to the elo values when it is run.
+ refresh\_$TABLE\_mv.sql - updates the "materialized view" named by $TABLE.
+
+ purge\_anticheat\_log.sql - deletes old anticheat data.
+
There is also a "merge players" function in the functions sub-
directory. This can be used to merge two players together into one
record in the presentation layer of XonStat. It can be run as follows: