Hello Helen,

>I think possibly there's something you're not telling us: did you begin
>the import operation by deleting a large number of old records? If so,
>then the first transaction on that table *after* the one that did the
>deleting will launch the garbage collector.

No I do not delete any records before inserting. What I didn't tell
you :)) was that there was another batch job updating some of the records. But
it does not delete records either. Only updates. This is a routine
montlhy procedure and it was OK the last several months.

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Best regards,
Alexander mailto:saho@...