"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