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

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files
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Msg-id FA433875-BD03-4377-A286-A50D1F8CA607@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files  (Jimmy Augustine <jimmy.augustine@enyx.fr>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files
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On 19 March 2018 17:31:20 CET, Jimmy Augustine <jimmy.augustine@enyx.fr> 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.


Indexes?


>I also see that I have 68GB of temporary files however I only found

Where can you see that?


>2.4MB
>at postgres/data/base/pgsql_tmp.
>
>Could you tell me what are those temporary files and where are they at?
>Can
>I delete some of them?


No, never delete files in datadir!

>
>All values come from pgAdmin 4 and checked by my own SQL
>queries(postgresql-9.6).
>I already run vacuum full and there is few dead tuples.

A few dead tuples arn't a real problem.


>
>Best regards,
>Jimmy AUGUSTINE


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