Alan McKay wrote: > >> And if so, where does that extra load go? ? ?Disk? ?CPU? ?RAM? > > > > As of 8.4.X the load isn't measurable. > > Thanks Bruce. What about 8.3 since that is our current production DB? Same. All statsistics settings that are enabled by default have near-zero overhead. Is there a specific setting you are thinking of? -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance