On 17 Sep 2009, at 14:57, Tom Lane wrote:
The symptoms indicate pretty strongly that you forgot about vacuuming the system catalogs. A plain "VACUUM" executed in every database, by a superuser, is sufficient for this. Trying to be smart by vacuuming only what you think needs vacuumed is not sufficient.
By "in every database" do you mean we need to vacuum the template* databases too? [and I'm just thankful, that as major wake up calls go, this was only painful as opposed to fatal or permanently debilitating!] Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin