Re: PostgreSQL 9.6 Temporary files

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?

> 
> Could you tell me what are those temporary files and where are they at? 
> Can I delete some of them?
> 
> All values come from pgAdmin 4 and checked by my own SQL 
> queries(postgresql-9.6).

Can you show actual queries used?

> I already run vacuum full and there is few dead tuples.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jimmy AUGUSTINE


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