Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files

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?

Or do you know what query it used?

> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Adrian Klaver
>     adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
> 
> 


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