Carol Walter wrote: > I'm not sure if we've done a reload. I'm in an academic environment > and our department is in a state of flux right now. I'm in the > process of trying to get up to speed on postgreSQL as fast as I can. > Here is the result set from that query. > > select * from pg_settings where name = 'autovacuum'; Actually could you please try select * from pg_settings where name like 'autovacuum%'; so that all the other settings show up as well? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support