After all this time I finally got around to vacuuming the database with dbt2 with pg_autovacuum. :) http://www.osdl.org/projects/dbt2dev/results/dev4-010/215/
Doesn't look so good though, probably because I'm not using optimal settings with pg_autovacuum. So far I have only tried the default settings (running without any arguments, except -D). The only thing that's peculiar is a number of unexpected rollbacks across all of the transactions. I suspect it was something to do with these messages coming from pg_autovacuum: [2004-12-20 15:48:18 PST] ERROR: Can not refresh statistics information from the database dbt2. [2004-12-20 15:48:18 PST] The error is [ERROR: failed to re-find parent key in "pk_district" ] This is with 8.0rc1. I can get rc2 installed since it just came out. So let me know what I can try and what not. Mark ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend