On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:13:31AM +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote: > You likely don't need the nightly full vacuum run... we also do here a > nightly vacuum beside autovacuum, but not a full one, only for tables > which are big enough that we don't want autovacuum to touch them in high > business time but they have enough change that we want a vacuum on them > frequent enough. I discover them by checking the stats, for example: Something else I like doing is a periodic vacuumdb -av and capture the output. It's a good way to keep an eye on FSM utilization. Once you've got vacuuming under control you can probably just do that once a month or so. -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)