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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Philip Semanchuk <[email protected]>
To: Torsten Förtsch <[email protected]>
Cc: 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 09:02:38 -0400
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> 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.
Hope that helps,
Philip
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