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Subject: Re: Disk is filling up with large files. How can I clean?
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 10:29:09 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 9:02 AM Philip Semanchuk <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 9, 2024, at 5:52 AM, Torsten Förtsch <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Mikael, if you’re unaware of VACUUM FULL (as opposed to just VACUUM), you
> should read about that too.
>
VACUUM FULL with an almost-full disk probably isn't the wisest idea.
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