Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jimmy Augustine
Subject Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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2018-03-19 17:45 GMT+01:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>:
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'));



Could you tell me what are those temporary files and where are they at? Can I delete some of them?

All values come from pgAdmin 4 and checked by my own SQL queries(postgresql-9.6).

Can you show actual queries used?


I already run vacuum full and there is few dead tuples.

Best regards,
Jimmy AUGUSTINE


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