On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:37:27PM -0800, Lists wrote: > it's clearing out the cruft that results from creating temp tables, > loading a bunch of data, then dropping the table, either explicitly > or when the connection is terminated. This causes PG disk usage to > climb without causing any change in pg_dump output. Oh. You need to up your autovacuum settings for the system catalog tables. I built a system that did this sort of thing. If your autovacuum settings are correct, this will stabilize. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general