Erik Jones <erik@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, I'm currently doctoring a situation wherein we've got table > inheritance scheme that over the years that has ballooned like only > in your nightmares (think well over 100K tables + indexes on those). > The obvious solution is to re-design the schema with a better > partitioning scheme in mind (see another msg from me later today on > that) but that's a big project that's just getting underway and an > immediate concern is the I/O on out data partition due in large part > to the stats file(s) getting hammered. Which PG version? Early 8.2.x releases had a nasty bug that caused excessive stats file writes. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster