Vacuum problem: can't shrink relation

Folks,

I've been getting the following sorts of messages after
loading a large database using 6.5.2:


NOTICE:  Rel psc1: TID 1/23: InsertTransactionInProgress 85517 - can't shrink
re
lation
pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
NOTICE:  Rel psc1: TID 1/24: InsertTransactionInProgress 85517 - can't shrink
re
lation
pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
NOTICE:  Rel psc1: TID 2/1: InsertTransactionInProgress 85517 - can't shrink
rel
ation
pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
.
.
.
[hundreds of thousands of these, literally]


Any idea what is going on?

--M


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