I wrote: > (2) Reconsider whether last-vacuum-time should be sent to the collector > unconditionally. Actually, now that I look, the collector already contains this logic: /* * Don't create either the database or table entry if it doesn't already * exist. This avoids bloating the stats with entries for stuff that is * only touched by vacuum and not by live operations. */ and ditto for analyze messages. So my idea that the addition of last-vac-time was causing an increase in the statistics file size compared to 8.1 seems wrong. How large is your $PGDATA/global/pgstat.stat file, anyway? regards, tom lane