Alex - wrote: > > Tom, I am logging these stats now, but i am having a similar issue. both jobs in the morning and after noon insert about 400k records (200k each) > In the morning that job takes 450secIn the afternoon only 150; No select, simple parsing a file and insert the records > These two tables don't grow as at night a cleanup job removes about the same amount of historical data (older about 40 days). > Its kind of the same behavior and i don't really see where the swapping fits in. Are you running vacuum of some sort on this table regularly? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general