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From: Torsten Förtsch <[email protected]>
To: Mikael Petterson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Disk is filling up with large files. How can I clean?
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 11:52:26 +0200
Message-ID: <CAKkG4_krrgxcGgUFoWu56xAS9CinZdpf5nDBfkfm0Mqf-dr6aw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Filenames like 16665, 16665.1, 16665.2 etc all represent the same table (or
similar). The number 16665 is called the file node.

To get a list of file nodes for a specific database you can run:

SELECT oid::regclass::text, relfilenode FROM pg_class;

The /16384/ in the path represents the database. To decipher that you can
run:

SELECT datname, oid FROM pg_database;

Once you have all that information, you know which database to connect to
and which tables are big. Then you can DROP/DELETE/TRUNCATE or so.

Useful functions in that context are pg_relation_size(), pg_table_size(),
pg_total_relation_size() and some more. Check out the manual for more
information.

Example:
SELECT oid::regclass::text, relfilenode, pg_relation_size(oid) as size FROM
pg_class ORDER BY size DESC;


On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 10:10 AM Mikael Petterson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I find our disk is filling up.
>
> sudo find /var/lib -type f -size +100M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print
> $9 ": " $5 }'
> /var/lib/rpm/Packages: 278M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16583: 392M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16588: 173M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16633: 106M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16644: 179M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16662: 438M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16665: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16667: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16668: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16780: 466M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16786: 182M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16788: 163M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16789: 315M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16790: 126M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16665.2: 403M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.7: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.6: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.9: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.8: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.6: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.4: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.5: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16668.3: 586M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.10: 458M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.1: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.2: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.2: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16668.1: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.3: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.3: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.4: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16665.1: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.5: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.1: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16668.2: 1.0G
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16667.1: 741M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/4652676: 502M
> /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/4652688: 155M
>
> How can I clean up?
>
> What can I do to clean up. We are using pgsql 12.
>
> Br,
>
> //Mikael
>
>
>
>
>
>

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