minshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > While exploring this problem, I've noticed that one of the frequent insert > processes creates a few temporary tables to do post-processing. Is it > possible that the stats collector is getting bloated with stats from these > short-lived temporary tables? During periods of high activity it could be > creating temporary tables as often as two per second. Hmmm ... that's an interesting point, but offhand I don't see why it'd cause more of a problem in 8.2 than 8.1. Alvaro, any thoughts? regards, tom lane