Ron St-Pierre wrote: > Okay, here's our system: > postgres 8.1.4 Upgrade to 8.1.10 > Here's the table information: > The table has 140,000 rows, 130 columns (mostly NUMERIC), 60 indexes. 60 indexes? You gotta be kidding. You really have 60 columns on which to scan? > vacuum_cost_delay = 200 > vacuum_cost_limit = 100 Isn't this a bit high? What happens if you cut the delay to, say, 10? (considering you've lowered the limit to half the default) -- Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/ "Someone said that it is at least an order of magnitude more work to do production software than a prototype. I think he is wrong by at least an order of magnitude." (Brian Kernighan) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate