Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com> writes:
>> Are you doing anything that would involve lots of updates in these
>> catalogs --- maybe repeatedly renaming a column, or something like that?
> Hmm, I typically use a pair of
> "ALTER TABLE table DISABLE TRIGGER USER;"/
> "ALTER TABLE table ENABLE TRIGGER USER;"
> per almost every relation when loading a dump, other than that there's
> only the initial db creation code (lots of plpgsql triggers and a couple
> immutable functions) and then using temp tables for complicated queries.
Hm, those ALTERs wouldn't affect pg_attribute. Maybe just using a lot
of temp tables is enough?
Are you running with autovacuum on, or not?
regards, tom lane