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> From: Thomas Kellerer [mailto:spam_ea...@gmx.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 12:31 PM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: Large number of rows in pg_type and slow gui (pgadmin)
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> Robert Klaus wrote on 03.01.2013 16:50:
> > We have 36,000+ rows returned by " SELECT oid, format_type(oid,
> > typtypmod) AS typname FROM pg_type".
> >
> > My manager says this is only a small number compared to what is
> > expected by next summer.
> 
> Why do you need so many types?
> That sounds like something in your design is not right.
> 
> Thomas
> 

Probably those are not the types Robert created explicitly.
There must be lots of tables/views (m.b. lots of partitions) in the database.  
Every table/view adds couple records to pg_type: one type for table/view record 
and one type the set (array) of table/view records.

Regards,
Igor Neyman




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