Hi, I'm looking at my log file (see my log file below) and it seems like the autovacuum daemon is turned on by default in Postgres 8.3.8. Does that mean that I no longer need to manually invoke the autovacuum command anymore? I used to do it manually in an older version of Postgres. tail postgresql-2010-06-02_000000.log DEBUG: autovacuum: processing database "template1" DEBUG: server process (PID 31719) exited with exit code 0 DEBUG: autovacuum: processing database "marydatabase" DEBUG: server process (PID 31729) exited with exit code 0 DEBUG: autovacuum: processing database "postgres" DEBUG: server process (PID 31739) exited with exit code 0 DEBUG: autovacuum: processing database "template1" DEBUG: server process (PID 31741) exited with exit code 0 DEBUG: autovacuum: processing database "marydatabase" DEBUG: server process (PID 31753) exited with exit code 0 Thanks Mary -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general