Re: how to shrink pg_attribute table in some database

our monitoring shows that this bloat happened within 72h.
after query was fixed - db stopped to grow in size.... so what other ideas?

2018-03-26 18:46 GMT+03:00 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:

> Artem Tomyuk <admin(at)leboutique(dot)com> writes:
> > There was broken query that every time was creating temp table and than
> was
> > trying to insert into this table some data in another query but within
> > single connection, what happened next that second query was unable to be
> > executed because of syntax error (yes, human factor), this query was
> > repeated every minute by cron 24/7.
>
> One temp table per minute doesn't explain this amount of bloat, unless
> autovacuum had failed to process pg_attribute for a really really long
> time. It would be good to figure out why that happened.
>
> regards, tom lane
>