Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Considering how rare this issue likely is, we need to be looking for a > solution that does not break the common case. Agreed. What I think we need to focus on next is why the code keeps increasing the number of batches. It seems like there must be an undue amount of data all falling into the same bucket ... but if it were simply a matter of a lot of duplicate hash keys, the growEnabled shutoff heuristic ought to trigger. regards, tom lane