Jim Nasby <jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The problem with that is unless I missed a change in 8.1, autovac > knows absolutely nothing about when manual vacuums have been run. It knows perfectly well about full-database vacuums (because those set pg_database.datvacuumxid), and by the end of the week or so it'll know about single-table vacuums too: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-04/msg00009.php regards, tom lane