Hi! Here are the details you asked for: The hardware : an intel server board S5500BC, intel xeon quad core 2GHz processor, 8Gb RAM and RAID. The OS is debian linux-lenny Here are the `uname` details: Linux central-hu 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 06:34:05 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux The postgres version is 8.3. The database was dumped by `pgdump` and it was reloaded by `psql -f`. Best regards Attila Miklosi -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general