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

From Jimmy Augustine
Subject Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files
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Msg-id CAF3uhZHu5BL7FP+S73EKzFBJCeinRkqhtdMVcYksDr032tw4Pg@mail.gmail.com
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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>)
Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files  (Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@gmail.com>)
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2018-03-19 18:09 GMT+01:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>:
On 03/19/2018 10:04 AM, Jimmy Augustine wrote:


2018-03-19 17:45 GMT+01:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto: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'));


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.

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Adrian Klaver
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