The autovacuum is turned on. Since this is pg8.1, I don't know when the table was actually last vacuumed. I *did* run analyze on the table, though. Also, nothing has been deleted in this table... so vacuum should have no affect, right? Mike Sean Davis wrote: > Mike Charnoky wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am still having problems performing a count(*) on a large table. > Have you vacuumed recently? > > Sean ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings