Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files

On 03/19/2018 10:04 AM, Jimmy Augustine wrote:
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> 2018-03-19 17:45 GMT+01:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
> <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>>:
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> On 03/19/2018 09:31 AM, Jimmy Augustine wrote:
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> Dear Friends,
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> 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.
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> Exactly how did you determine this?
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> I used this command and sum result for all database :
> SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('table_name'));
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> And this for complete database :
> SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('Database Name'));
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So where did the 68GB number for temporary files come from?

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