Re: Why do we let autovacuum give up?

On 01/23/2014 01:03 PM, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
> On 24/01/14 09:49, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 2. What have you got that is requesting exclusive lock on
>> pg_attribute? That seems like a pretty unfriendly behavior in itself.
>> regards, tom lane
>
> I've seen this sort of problem where every db session was busily
> creating temporary tables. I never got to the find *why* they needed to
> make so many, but it seemed like a bad idea.

Yep... that's the one. They are creating lots and lots of temp tables.

JD



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