I am having the same problems.
I too do a lot of creation and dropping of temp tables from within
functions.
Should I reindex every night?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: <patrick.fiche@aqsacom.com>
Cc: "PostgreSQL - General (E-mail)" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_attribute always grow...
> Patrick Fiche wrote:
> > Is there any reason why pg_attribute could always grow ( size in
> > relpages... ) even if number of tuples don't grow...
> > The indexes pg_attribute_relid_attnam_index and
> > pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index grow and I don't see any way to vacuum
them
> > without restarting postgres with -O and -P options and launching REINDEX
> > command.
> > Could it be due to the fact that I create and drop many temporary tables
in
> > stored procedures ?
>
> Yes, it could very well be that. I am quite embarassed by our need to
> reindex.
>
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