On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 04:37:50PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > My guess would be that the vacuum was triggered by updates, but there were > active transactions that prevented vacuum from cleaning up the dead tuples, > so it came back later and was able to clean them up at that time. > > Would need to do a little more in-depth research/monitoring to determine > if that guess is correct or not. makes perfect sense, thanks. Best regards, depesz -- The best thing about modern society is how easy it is to avoid contact with it. http://depesz.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general