On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 10:33, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One thing that just occurred to me is that you might find it > interesting to keep tabs on what's in the $PGDATA/pg_notify > directory. Do the performance burps correspond to transitory > peaks in the amount of data there? Or (grasping at straws here...) > wraparound of the file names back to 0000? We don't have filesystem access on Cloud SQL - the downside of the managed route :) It sounds like it might be time to bump the pg13 upgrade up the TODO list. Cheers Ben