drop tempoary table VERY slow

I have a DB where this:

select 1 into temporary table x;
runs quickly, but

drop table x;

takes many seconds to run.

I don't know why.

But:

begin;
select 1 into temporary table x;
abort;

is very quick.

Note the slow dropping applies to automatic dropping of temporary tables
when the connection is closed.
I now "abort" all my query sessions for speed.

I cannot reproduce this on "template1" and it has not always been the case
for my DB.

Sam


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