thanks for reply, but that's not it, i am running the deletes thru a
simple PHP script without transactions.
and i checked that the deleted rows are non-existent over pgadmin
> Jana <jana.vasseru@gmail.com> writes:
>> I have a table which shows estimated number of rows 243 655 000 it has 2
>> 030 460 pages. Now i'm trying to delete some of the rows, the trouble is
>> that the number of rows is not getting any lower. The deletes are
>> successfull and subsequent select shows that the a row was indeed
>> deleted.
>
> Perhaps you forgot to commit the deletion?
>
> regards, tom lane
