Mark Stosberg wrote: > > When I upgraded a busy database system to PostgreSQL 8.1, I was excited > about AutoVacuum, and promptly enabled it, and turned off the daily > vacuum process. > > ( > I set the following, as well as the option to enable auto vacuuming > stats_start_collector = true > stats_row_level = true > ) > > I could see in the logs that related activity was happening, but within > a few days, the performance became horrible, and enabling the regular > vacuum fixed it. > > Eventually autovacuum was completely disabled. This has been tracked down to a bug in 8.1's Windows port. See http://people.planetpostgresql.org/mha/index.php?/archives/134-8.1-on-win32-pgstat-and-autovacuum.html -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support