I just browsed to my $PGDATA location and noticed that there are some tables which has ending of .1 # ls -lahS | egrep '(24694|24702|24926)' -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Sep 3 22:56 24694 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Sep 3 22:52 24702 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Sep 3 22:58 24926 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 800M Sep 3 22:57 24694.1 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 161M Sep 3 22:52 24702.1 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 12M Sep 3 22:58 24926.1 I'm wondering what are these since I've not set up table partitioning just yet. ---------------------------(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