On 19 March 2018 18:21:42 CET, Jimmy Augustine <jimmy.augustine@enyx.fr> wrote: >2018-03-19 18:15 GMT+01:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>: > >> On 03/19/2018 10:12 AM, Jimmy Augustine wrote: >> >> >>> On 03/19/2018 09:31 AM, Jimmy Augustine wrote: >>> >>> Dear Friends, >>> >>> I am newbie to postgresql. >>> I have 162 GB on my database but when I check size >of all >>> tables, I approximately obtain 80 GB. >>> I also see that I have 68GB of temporary files >however >>> I only >>> found 2.4MB at postgres/data/base/pgsql_tmp. >>> >>> >>> Exactly how did you determine this? >>> >>> I used this command and sum result for all database : >>> SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('table_name')); >>> >>> And this for complete database : >>> SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('Database Name')); >>> >>> >>> So where did the 68GB number for temporary files come from? >>> >>> I don't measure this value by my own. I was disappointed by the gap >>> between the two queries, so I checked pgAdmin 4 and I saw this >value. >>> >> >> In what section of pgAdmin4? >> >In section "Statistics" when I click on my database. > >Or do you know what query it used? >> >I have found this but not sure > >SELECT temp_files AS "Temporary files" > , temp_bytes AS "Size of temporary files"FROM pg_stat_database db;
