Pedro Alves <pmalves@think.pt> writes:
> As a final attempt I tryed a pg_dumpall; initdb; psql -f <file> . It
> seems to work as expected.... (!)
It may have been a case of index bloat--did you ever REINDEX? That
might have fixed it without a dump/reload.
7.4 has fixes for the index bloat problem.
-Doug