There's a bug in pg_autovacuum that makes it vacuum large tables way to frequently.
ogr=# select reltuples from pg_class where relname='ogr_summary'; reltuples ------------- 2.64411e+07 (1 row) [2004-04-27 02:03:08 PM] table name: ogr."public"."ogr_results" [2004-04-27 02:03:08 PM] relid: 615097; relisshared: 0 [2004-04-27 02:03:08 PM] reltuples: 7; relpages: 519951 [2004-04-27 02:03:08 PM] curr_analyze_count: 9904180; cur_delete_count: 168282 [2004-04-27 02:03:08 PM] ins_at_last_analyze: 9904180; del_at_last_vacuum: 168282 [2004-04-27 02:03:08 PM] insert_threshold: 507; delete_threshold 1014 [2004-04-27 02:03:08 PM] added table: ogr."public"."ogr_results" I suspect the issue is on line 121: new_tbl->reltuples = atoi(PQgetvalue(res, row, PQfnumber(res, "reltuples"))); I'm not a C coder, but doesn't atoi just take a text value and convert it to an int? Shouldn't all the stats counters be stored as reals? -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings