Tom, > > "There were 33076 unused item pointers." > > Is this a count of dead index pointers, or something else? > > No, it's currently-unused item pointers (a/k/a line pointers) on heap > pages. See http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/page.html So this would be a count of pointers whose items had already been moved? -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco