Vick Khera <vivek@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Preeti > Khurana<preeti.khurana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Any ideas/pointers on what could be making the DB slow after all these heavy >> operations being performed? > It seems autovacuum is not running often enough. 8.1's autovacuum isn't very aggressive by default. You might want to play around with its parameters. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general