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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Size of /pgdata
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:39:41 -0400
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 2:48 AM Raj <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am using 17.9 version.
>
> I see suddenly du -sh /pgdata/17 shows  930GB. Total allocated is 1TB.
>

Don't stop with "-s".  Drill deeper:

du -hd2 /pgdata/17


>
> I checked the db size using \l+ and also pg_total_relation_size and size
> for particular db is 630GB. Ignoring postgres and template dbs as they are
> in KBs.
>

Use pg_database_size() instead, since pg_total_relation_size() might miss
something.

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