I am doing regular insertion/deletion on the same tables .. and running vacuum in an hour...
I suspect there is bloating in my tables.. but how does bloating in pgcatalog is happening is not clear...
> Normally vacuum full is NOT required on a regular basis. However, if> you did something like creation 100M tables and then dropped them, or
> did it one at a time real fast, you could outrun your autovacuum
> daemons and get bloat in the pg catalog tables.
>
> Just offering a possibility for why a connection might be taking a
> long time. There's plenty of other possibilities I'm sure.