Hi, Bill, Bill Moran wrote: > My understanding is basically that if you vacuum with the correct > frequency, you'll never need to vacuum full. This is why the > autovacuum system is so nice, it adjusts the frequency of vacuum according > to how much use the DB is getting. Additonally, the "free_space_map" setting has to be high enough, it has to cover enough space to put in all pages that get dead rows between two vacuum runs. HTH, Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org