Hi ALL, Ive been using postgres for 3 years and now we are having problems with its performance. Here are some givens.. We have 260 subscription tables per Database. We have 2 databases. Our main client has given us 250,000 mobile numbers to deactivate. -- We we are experiencing 91,000 mobile numbers to deactive it took a week to finish for 1 DB only the second DB is still in the process of deactivating Algorithm to deactivate: we loaded all subscription tables names into a table we loaded all mobile numbers to deactivate into a table SQL: update SUBSCRIPTIONTABLE set ACTIVEFLAG='Y' where mobile_num in (select mobile_num from LOADED_MOBILE_NUMBERS) the script was made is "C" COFIG FILE: # This is ARA nmimain tcpip_socket = true max_connections = 150 superuser_reserved_connections = 2 port = 5433 shared_buffers = 45600 sort_mem = 40000 max_locks_per_transaction=128 #fsync = true #wal_sync_method = fsync # # Locale settings # # (initialized by initdb -- may be changed) LC_MESSAGES = 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_MONETARY = 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_NUMERIC = 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_TIME = 'en_US.UTF-8' .. DB is being vaccumed every week my box is running on a DUAL Xeon, 15K RPM with 2 G Mem. that box is running 2 instances of PG DB. TIA,