Sorry for the delays on this that machine actually died recently and had to be rebuit before I could do any more tests.
> > > It would be interesting to see the 'vacuum full analyze' > > > results for the > > > system tables in that DB, although perhaps less > interesting while you > > > are running your current solution - maybe a comparison would be > > > worthwhile. Are you very interested in the comparison? I could fake a load of the non-transactioned tempoary table queries if you are really interested. I also noted we sometimes get a load of temporary tables left lying around that look "global" and we have to drop by hand. After rebuilding the machine I did a dump from the other machine and inserted on the new machine (schema, data and all) and the new machine is VERY slow at queries; taking 4 seconds at 100% cpu at times instead of 0.2-0.5 seconds or so. Yet if I copy over the binary files when the DB's are stopped the new machine is very fast at queries. Could this be because the new machine started on 7.2.1 with a different optimiser and so never generated query stats the the old box did while it was still on 7.2 ? Sam ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]