Re: pg_class (system) table increasing size.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: dhaval jaiswal <dhavallj(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_class (system) table increasing size.
Date: 2016-11-21 17:44:58
Message-ID: 20161121174458.icjbavkctm423fp5@alvherre.pgsql
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dhaval jaiswal wrote:
> I did check and found it was the bloated size of pg_class which was slowing down the performance.
>
> It got fixed by adding in routine maintenance task. Things are fine now.

Good to know.

> However, I want to know how come pg_class (system table) get bloated/affected.
>
> What could be the possible ways, where i can look into.

The most common cause is high traffic temp table usage.

> Due to business impact auto vacuum is off.

Yeah, that's a really bad idea and you should turn it on and configure
it so that it doesn't impact business. Having it turned off is
definitely not recommended.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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