>Hmm ... what does VACUUM VERBOSE of that table show? > Here is the output of VACUUM VERBOSE
INFO: vacuuming "public.FILE" INFO: scanned index "FILE_pkey" to remove 54 row versions DETAIL: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.01 sec. INFO: "FILE": removed 54 row versions in 5 pages DETAIL: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: index "FILE_pkey" now contains 34 row versions in 2 pages DETAIL: 54 index row versions were removed. 0 index pages have been deleted, 0 are currently reusable. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: "FILE": found 54 removable, 34 nonremovable row versions in 5 pages DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. There were 0 unused item pointers. 5 pages contain useful free space. 0 pages are entirely empty. CPU 0.00 s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.07 sec. INFO: vacuuming "pg_toast. pg_toast_45181" INFO: index "pg_toast_45181_index" now contains 16608 row versions in 51 pages DETAIL: 0 index row versions were removed. 0 index pages have been deleted, 0 are currently reusable. CPU 0.00s/0. 00u sec elapsed 0.26 sec. INFO: "pg_toast_45181": found 0 removable, 16608 nonremovable row versions in 4 153 pages DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. There were 0 unused item pointers. 2 pages contain useful free space. 0 pages are entirely empty. CPU 0.23 s/0.07u sec elapsed 4.93 sec. VACUUM Regards Massimo ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster