Greg, Florian, Joshua, Tom- On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 17:02 -0700, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: > You need to edit the postgresql.conf file and increase the > max_fsm_pages and max_fsm_relations parameters and then restart > postgres
I did this and vacuumed. I didn't need to up shmmax. The problem's disappeared (and, fortunately, my data are still intact). Thanks everyone for your help. -Reece -- Reece Hart, http://harts.net/reece/, GPG:0x25EC91A0 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend