Re: how to shrink pg_attribute table in some database - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Artem Tomyuk
Subject Re: how to shrink pg_attribute table in some database
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In response to Re: how to shrink pg_attribute table in some database  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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our monitoring shows that this bloat happened within 72h. 
after query was fixed - db stopped to grow in size.... so what other ideas?

2018-03-26 18:46 GMT+03:00 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
Artem Tomyuk <admin@leboutique.com> writes:
> There was broken query that every time was creating temp table and than was
> trying to insert into this table some data in another query but within
> single connection, what happened next that second query was unable to be
> executed because of syntax error (yes, human factor), this query was
> repeated every minute by cron 24/7.

One temp table per minute doesn't explain this amount of bloat, unless
autovacuum had failed to process pg_attribute for a really really long
time.  It would be good to figure out why that happened.

                        regards, tom lane

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