Using 8.3.1 No matter what I try I've never seen any evidence that autovacuum runs on my system. I set autovacuum_vacuum_threshold = 50 Then run a process to do updates on a table, shouldn't autovacuum kick in after 50 updates? __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html