Greg Sabino Mullane <g...@endpoint.com> writes: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 05:44:15PM -0700, Jeff Frost wrote: >> On May 27, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> occurring, they'd take long enough to expose the process to sinval >>> overrun even with not-very-high DDL rates.
>> As it turns out, there are quite a few temporary tables created. > For the record, same here. We do *lots* of DDL (hence the cronjobs > to vac/reindex system catalogs). I wonder if it could've been something like transient problem with a cronjob leading to massive bloat of pg_attribute, eventually triggering the syncscan issue, then fixed by a successful VAC FULL before we thought to look closely at the table size. The syncscan issue definitely was there in 8.3.5, it's only the question of pg_attribute size that made me doubt it was happening for you. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers