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Mariel Cherkassky <mariel.cherkassky@gmail.com> writes:
> The system catalogs located in the global directory but the global
> directory isnt so big(500K).

You're operating under false assumptions.  Only catalogs marked
relisshared are in that directory, other ones are in the per-database
directories.

Somebody mentioned pg_largeobject upthread --- that would definitely
be a candidate to be big, if you're using large objects at all.

			regards, tom lane