Re: [Junk released by User action] Re: [Junk released by User action]Re: [External] Postgres Database Disk Usage

Since the underlying filesystem shows the 43GB, try to isolate it to what file(s) are causing the problem.  Assuming you are connected to the "FVDM" database and all the tables are in one schema, run this query to identify all the table files.

select c.oid, c.relname, c.reltuples, c.relfilenode,  pg_relation_filenode(c.oid), pg_relation_filepath(c.oid) from pg_class c, pg_tables t where c.relname = t.tablename and t.schemaname = 'myschema' order by 1;

Before drilling down to where the database files are, do a du -hs at $PGDATA directory.  Then do it at $PGDATA/base.  Then do it at the table directory level:
$PGDATA/base/ <database filenode> and run "du -hs" on everything there and see if something stands out.

Jeremiah Bauer

Friday, February 8, 2019 2:59 PM

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Yes, it did run out of free space when some test data was being loaded.

I added more space, could this be the cause of the issue? I ran a Vacuum Full on the entire database after adding more free space, but the size of the database is still significantly larger than the sum of the objects in it.

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Jeremiah

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From: Mariel Cherkassky <mariel.cherkassky@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 2:33 PM
To: Jeremiah Bauer
Cc: MichaelDBA; Vijaykumar Jain; pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: [Junk released by User action] Re: [Junk released by User action] Re: [External] Postgres Database Disk Usage

 

Is there a chance that you run out of disks space recently? 

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Jeremiah Bauer

Friday, February 8, 2019 1:34 PM

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Sure, I tried that before I posted to the mailing list.

This is the size of the restored database with a different name:

[postgres@localhost ~]$ pg_dump FVDM > /tmp/out.sql

[postgres@localhost ~]$ less /tmp/out.sql

[postgres@localhost ~]$ createdb FVDM_restored

[postgres@localhost ~]$ psql FVDM_restored </tmp/out.sql

....completes no errors....

postgres=# SELECT d.datname AS Name,  pg_catalog.pg_get_userbyid(d.datdba) AS Owner,

    CASE WHEN pg_catalog.has_database_privilege(d.datname, 'CONNECT')

        THEN pg_catalog.pg_size_pretty(pg_catalog.pg_database_size(d.datname))

        ELSE 'No Access'

    END AS SIZE                                                                    

FROM pg_catalog.pg_database d

    ORDER BY

    CASE WHEN pg_catalog.has_database_privilege(d.datname, 'CONNECT')

        THEN pg_catalog.pg_database_size(d.datname)

        ELSE NULL

    END DESC -- nulls first

    LIMIT 20;

     name      |  owner   |  size  

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

 FVDM          | postgres | 43 GB

 FVDM_restored | postgres | 497 MB

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Jeremiah

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From: Mariel Cherkassky <mariel.cherkassky@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 12:42 PM
To: MichaelDBA
Cc: Vijaykumar Jain; Jeremiah Bauer; pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: [Junk released by User action] Re: [External] Postgres Database Disk Usage

 

Can you try to dump the database and then restore it with a different name ? Check if the size of the restored one is the same. 

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Mariel Cherkassky

Friday, February 8, 2019 12:42 PM

Can you try to dump the database and then restore it with a different name ? Check if the size of the restored one is the same.