Re: pg_attribute growing extremely

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 03:56:23AM -0000, hamann.w@t-online.de wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> on a server running 8.4 I observe that, since a while, the pg_attribute table is growing
> enormously.
> Soon after reloading I have one file
> ls -s 1249
> 1048580 1249
> a day later this is
> 1048580 1249
> 1048580 1249.1
> 1048580 1249.10
> 1048580 1249.11
> 1048580 1249.12
> 1048580 1249.13
> 1048580 1249.14
> 1048580 1249.15
>  682212 1249.16
> 1048580 1249.2
> 1048580 1249.3
> 1048580 1249.4
> 1048580 1249.5
> 1048580 1249.6
> 1048580 1249.7
> 1048580 1249.8
> 1048580 1249.9
>    4316 1249_fsm
>      24 1249_vm
> and 5 days later the system had arrived at 102 files

Is autovacuum enabled? Are you using a lot of temporary tables? Do you
have long running transactions?

Have a nice day,
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