Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files

On 03/19/2018 10:12 AM, Jimmy Augustine wrote:

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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?
>
> 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'));
>
>
> 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?

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> Adrian Klaver
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