Allen, > Ok, you thought maybe this thread died or got abandoned in the face of > all the senseless trolling and spam going on.. you were wrong.. ;) > > I thought though I'd start over trying to explain what's going on. > I've gone through some dumps, and recreation of the database with some > different filesystem options and whatnot, and starting over fresh > here's the situation. I can't find the beginning of this thread. What's your sort_mem? Shared_buffers? -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco