On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:27 AM, John Lister <john.lister@kickstone.com> wrote:
> Instead I tried to vacuum them, but this didn't make any difference (or
> indeed do anything), so in the end I deleted the tables manually instead,
> which instantly reset the transaction count back to the 1billion mark. I
> now need to find out which process probably died due to its temp tables
> disappearing, again they appeared odd - single alphabetical names - which I
> wasn't expecting...
>
> Was this expected behaviour with temporary tables?
It's more expected behavior when you have long running transactions.
I haven't seen it caused by temp tables. Was the parent process in a
really long transaction or just open a long time without one?