Anj Adu <fotographs@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > We have several partitioned tables that get dropped every day ..We do > not do autovacuum as it is an IO hog (and most tables are dropped > anyways..and the large tables are never updated).. If you're not going to run autovacuum then that means *you* must take responsibility for vacuuming everything on a reasonable schedule. That includes the system catalogs. I think you'd be better off taking the effort to learn to tune autovacuum to fit your requirements. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin