Craig, > Transaction ID wraparound will be a problem at a bit less than 2 billion > transactions. So if you vacuum the table every 1 billion transactions > you are safe. I suggest you read the "routine maintenance" section in > the docs; the wraparound issue is explained there. For reference, we calculated on a data warehouse with about 700 million rows in the main fact table that we had 6 years until XID wraparound. Mind you, that's partly because all of our rows were inserted in large batches of 100,000 rows each. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco