On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 08:59 -0600, Dan Harris wrote: > I have a table with 1 live row that I found has 115000 dead rows in it ( > from a testing run ). I'm trying to VACUUM FULL the table and it has > run for over 18 hours without completion. Considering the hardware on > this box and the fact that performance seems reasonable in all other > aspects, I'm confused as to why this would happen. The database other > than this table is quite large ( 70 gigs on disk ) and I would expect to > take days to complete but I just did 'vacuum full table_stats'. That > should only do that table, correct? I'm running 8.0.3. Read this http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/release-8-0-5.html and you'll probably decide to upgrade. Best Regards, Simon Riggs