Steve Lane <slane(at)moyergroup(dot)com> writes:
> I've been looking at Postgres' statistics tables to try to get some sense of
> why my database server seems to be running slowly. Oddly, the stats tables
> seem to be recording no activity!
Did you enable stats collection?
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-STATS-SETUP
regards, tom lane