On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:07:03AM -0700, Charles.Hou wrote: > i use the VACUUM VERBOSE a table , but it had been hold 10 minutes . i > must use the linux command " kill " to exit the VACUUM. > after i kill this PID, the PostgreSql have been restart > automatically. Maybe it was doing work. Why did you kill it? If there is a problem on that table, I wouldn't be surprised that it'd take 10 minutes. You just caused all the work it started to do to be undone, and to cause more bloat. But. . . > DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. . . . this suggests you don't have bloat on that table at least. So it sounds to me like your disk use is going up because you have a lot of data. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx In the future this spectacle of the middle classes shocking the avant- garde will probably become the textbook definition of Postmodernism. --Brad Holland