Re: Bogus temp file reporting?

Hello,

Is there a known issue with temp file reporting?  I have a production db that is reporting 231TB of temp space usage, which can’t be true.  temp_blks_written in pg_stat_statements sort of confirms this, as the reported queries show just a few MB of temp space usage.  I suspect a reboot will clear this (to do) and wanted to check with you to see if someone else has had similar experiences.

Regards,

Kiriakos Georgiou

select version();

                                                              version                                                             

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PostgreSQL 14.8 (Ubuntu 14.8-1.pgdg20.04+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, 64-bit

(1 row)

 

 

select           

    datname,

    temp_files as "# of temp files",

    pg_size_pretty(temp_bytes) as "size of temp files"

from

pg_stat_database;

   datname     | # of temp files | size of temp files

---------------+-----------------+--------------------

               |               0 | 0 bytes

postgres       |               0 | 0 bytes

testdb         |          269647 | 231 TB

template0      |               0 | 0 bytes

template1      |               0 | 0 bytes