Thanks, recreating the table solved my problems. Our team is working on implementing some performance tuning based on other recommendations from the list (FSM, etc). Mike Joshua D. Drake wrote: > At this point, you are in a world of hurt :). If you stop a vacuum you > have created a huge mess of dead rows in that table. My suggestion is > this to create a new table that is populated from the old table, rename > the old table to big_table new, rename new table to old table. Run analyze. ---------------------------(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