Tom, > The current TOAST code never does any updates, only inserts/deletes. > But the HOT logic should be able to reclaim deleted rows early via > pruning. OK, so for a heavy update application we should still see a vacuum reduction, even if most of the rows are 40k large? Time to run some tests ... -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster