> So, it appears my autovacuum is just NOT working... I must have screwed > something up, but I cannot see what.
Is it possible that you have long running transactions ? If yes, VACUUM is simply not efficient, as it won't eliminate the dead space accumulated during the long running transaction. In that case VACUUM FULL won't help you either as it also can't eliminate dead space still visible by old transactions, but from what you say I guess you really stop everything before doing VACUUM FULL so you might as well stopped the culprit transaction too... that's why the VACUUM FULL worked (if my assumption is correct). To check if this is the case, look for "idle in transaction" in your process listing (ps auxww|grep "idle in transaction"). If you got one (or more) of that, you found your problem. If not, hopefully others will help you :-) Cheers, Csaba. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
