Marcin Gozdalik <gozdal@gmail.com> writes:
> I have traced the problem to the bloated `pg_class` (the irony: `pgmetrics`
> does not collect bloat on `pg_catalog`):
> `vacuum (full, analyze, verbose) pg_class;`
> ```
> INFO: vacuuming "pg_catalog.pg_class"
> INFO: "pg_class": found 1 removable, 7430805 nonremovable row versions in
> 158870 pages
> DETAIL: 7429943 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.
Ugh. It's understandable that having a lot of temp-table traffic
would result in the creation of lots of dead rows in pg_class.
The question to be asking is why aren't they vacuumable? You
must have a longstanding open transaction somewhere (perhaps
a forgotten prepared transaction?) that is holding back the
global xmin horizon. Closing that out and then doing another
manual VACUUM FULL should help.
regards, tom lane