I have a job that does a big batch delete/insert. I want it to vacuum (or probably cluster) when it's finished. But I figure I should sleep for a while before doing the vacuum to be sure there are no old transactions still running. Is there a simple query I can have it do against the system tables to check for any transactions older either than when the batch delete finished? I'm also interested in verifying that I don't have the problem of the front-end application issuing a BEGIN as soon as a script ends. Ie, starting a transaction that will lie idle until the next page hit that process handles. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly