>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