I've never used this version (6.5.3), but have you tried the 'vacuum'
command?
>i have a postgres database (version 6.5.3) that gets update by a Java
>program every night.
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>it seems that each time the update is done it always takes a bit
>longer to complete the process. when it first started it took about 2
>minutes. now it takes about 2 hours to do the update. is there
>something i can do to bring down the time it takes to update the
>database?
>
>Peter Choe
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