Re: Bloated pg_shdepend_depender_index - Mailing list pgsql-admin

"Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell@gmail.com> writes:
> When I vacuum fulled nothing else was connected.. I just restarted PG
> and vacuumed again.. no obvious change of disk size (still.. 6.4
> gigs).. but this changed:

> amarokcollection=#  select relname, pg_relation_size(oid) FROM
> pg_class ORDER BY 2 DESC LIMIT 20;
>              relname             | pg_relation_size
> ---------------------------------+------------------
>  pg_attribute_relid_attnam_index |       2881069056
>  pg_class_relname_nsp_index      |       1185890304

That's in a different database --- evidently, the one where a *whole*
lotta temp tables have been created and dropped.  If you haven't been
doing any vacuuming then system catalog bloat is to be expected.

            regards, tom lane