"Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > within my log there is the following snippet: > 2006-08-07 13:20:27 LOG: autovacuum: processing database "template1" > 2006-08-07 13:20:47 ERROR: could not open relation with OID 311438 > 2006-08-07 13:21:52 LOG: autovacuum: processing database "postgres" The easiest explanation is that someone dropped a table just as autovacuum was trying to open it. The above trace suggests that you're actively changing template1, which is probably not good practice ... regards, tom lane
