Running 9.1.3 on Linux-x86_64. I'm seeing autovacuum running for the past 6 hours on a newly created table that only has 1 row of data in it. This table did exist previously, but was dropped & recreated. I'm not sure if that might explain this behavior. When I strace the autovacuum process, I see the following scrolling by non-stop (with no changes to the file referenced): select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 21000}) = 0 (Timeout) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 21000}) = 0 (Timeout) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) Is this normal/expected? thanks -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general