Hannes Erven <hannes@xxxxxxxx> writes: > It is still about 5 MB of private memory per "idle" backend process. Is > there anything I can do to optimize? That sounds about the right ballpark for a working backend process with caches loaded up. If that's too much for you, you ought to be using connection pooling. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general