Extra files in "base" dir not seen in relfilenodes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Daniel Farina
Subject Extra files in "base" dir not seen in relfilenodes
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Msg-id CACN56+N6XNATLAzQiQk0N2E6HehGgkNi+dyTgNBv+uGnoLUXiw@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Extra files in "base" dir not seen in relfilenodes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I am looking at a database with a wide (~500G) divergence between the total space expended by the database directory and the result of select sum(pg_relation_size(oid)) from pg_class;.

I located about 280G of apparent extra space by performing an anti-join between files on disk and files in the catalog via the pg_class.relfilenode field.

What should I do to get rid of the data, if it is, in fact, "extra"? Is there a reasonable bug report to file? Can I independently compute the entire itemization of files that belong in the data directory?

The cluster was pg_upgrade'd, in link mode, a while ago, to 10.1 from 9.6. This is not necessarily relevant, though.
 
Thanks,
Daniel

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