On Mar 8, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > After it's done you probably ought to look into your autovacuum > settings. You shouldn't have gotten into a state with so many dead > tuples in the first place, I would think, if autovac were functioning > properly. Yeah, it turns out our autovacuums kept getting canceled because this table gets a lot of churn. Now that we've turn off the cost delay, things are much happier. Thanks! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general