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

From Daniel Farina
Subject Re: Extra files in "base" dir not seen in relfilenodes
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In response to Re: Extra files in "base" dir not seen in relfilenodes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Extra files in "base" dir not seen in relfilenodes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:04 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Daniel Farina <daniel@fdr.io> writes:
> 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;.

Odd.

> 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.

Umm ... are you accounting for catalogs that have zeroes in
pg_class.relfilenode?  It's generally better to rely on the
pg_relation_filenode(oid) function than the raw column contents.

Yeah, the catalogs are not considered here (oids < 10000). The oids in question are rather high. Let me re-run the antijoin with the function though....

Indeed, same result.

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