Vacuuming is sort of necessary at the moment, because if you don't vacuum,
postgres won't use your indexes. :( This is supposedly going to be fixed
in the 7.x series (7.5 I think I heard) but I've never heard of a vacuum
corrupting a normally working database in the 4 or 5 months I've been
re
> Thanks! Turning off the nightly vacuum script did the trick. Now . . . any
> idea why vacuum would be so damaging? It certainly appears, at least for me,
> that the routine is more trouble than it is worth. Is it a malfunction that
> can be overwritten or a bug or something else?
>
> Again many
