At 02:21 AM 6/9/99 +0800, Vadim Mikheev wrote: >Valerie Mates wrote: >> >> Hi -- Some clod turned off the power to my customer's computer -- a Linux >> box with a Postgres server on it -- while it was running. Ever since then, >> certain PostgreSQL queries have been very slow. We wonder how to tell if >> the database was damaged. Is there a program we can run to check the >> integrity of the database? (And is this the right list for me to ask this >> question on?) > >Rebuild your indices. >Run vacuum verbose. > >Vadim > > Vacuuming did the trick. I don't know how I managed not to find out that we should have been vacuuming regularly. I've set up a cron job to do it nightly. We had been tearing our hair out over this. Many many thanks!! -Valerie ------------------------------------------------------------------- Valerie Mates * Web Developer * http://www.valeriemates.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (734) 995-6716 -------------------------------------------------------------------