Re: database speed

>You should periodically be doing:

>a) VACUUM (at least once a day, probably) and
>b) REINDEX

>Are you doing both of these?  See the docs if you're not familiar with
>them.

>The REINDEX is needed because VACUUM doesn't free up index space in
>some circumstances.  7.4 (currently in late beta) will fix this.

Sorry Doug,

Yes I am doing a vacuum regularly - in fact, when the speed of the DB becomes slower, the vacuum takes longer and
longertoo. 

I have never used the REINDEX

I wondered if it might be a row chaining issue of some sort ?!?

Chris