Hi, I have a database with one table with about 22 millions records. I have a script every day wich insert about 200 000 records ... Sometime my script takes 4 hours to insert the data, sometime 1 hour. Then I have a question does for inserting data PostgreSQL use somewhere the number of estimated rows ... ? For me no ... but ... For example ... mybases=# ANALYZE VERBOSE my_table; INFO: analyzing "public.my_table" INFO: "my_table": 434342 pages, 30000 rows sampled, 22585030 estimated total rows ANALYZE Time: 173317.410 ms I insert 200 000 data ... 4 hours ... Then I get back to the same situation (other server same database in same situation before the insert ... (same analyze as before)) ... I do the same Analyze ... then I do a vacuum analyze like this after ... Why the estimated total rows of the first index is not in correlation with the analyze done before ? Why the total at the end of the vacuum is also different ? And why after the vacuum analyze the insert takes 1 hour ?? mybases=# VACUUM VERBOSE ANALYZE my_table; INFO: vacuuming "public.my_table" INFO: index "ix_my_table_compte" now contains 21897465 row versions in 113659 pages DETAIL: 270724 index row versions were removed. 0 index pages have been deleted, 0 are currently reusable. CPU 12.23s/20.53u sec elapsed 824.63 sec. INFO: index "ix_my_table_idcontract" now contains 21897465 row versions in 65647 pages DETAIL: 270724 index row versions were removed. 0 index pages have been deleted, 0 are currently reusable. CPU 4.32s/14.52u sec elapsed 337.45 sec. INFO: index "ix_my_table_arrete_week" now contains 21897465 row versions in 87723 pages DETAIL: 270724 index row versions were removed. 2780 index pages have been deleted, 1689 are currently reusable. CPU 8.68s/11.40u sec elapsed 754.39 sec. INFO: "my_table": removed 270724 row versions in 5209 pages DETAIL: CPU 0.27s/0.74u sec elapsed 15.40 sec. INFO: "my_table": found 270724 removable, 21897465 nonremovable row versions in 434342 pages DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. There were 416707 unused item pointers. 0 pages are entirely empty. CPU 44.14s/52.89u sec elapsed 2247.39 sec. INFO: "my_table": truncated 434342 to 431553 pages DETAIL: CPU 0.06s/0.03u sec elapsed 0.08 sec. INFO: vacuuming "pg_toast.pg_toast_917442" INFO: index "pg_toast_917442_index" now contains 0 row versions in 1 pages DETAIL: 0 index pages have been deleted, 0 are currently reusable. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: "pg_toast_917442": found 0 removable, 0 nonremovable row versions in 0 pages DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. There were 0 unused item pointers. 0 pages are entirely empty. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.06 sec. INFO: analyzing "public.my_table" INFO: "my_table": 431553 pages, 30000 rows sampled, 22440007 estimated total rows VACUUM Time: 2493147.338 ms Thanks for you replies, -- Hervé Piedvache Elma Ingénierie Informatique 6 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré F-75008 - Paris - France Pho. 33-144949901 Fax. 33-144949902 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)