From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Found Large Files.. what objects are they?
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:46:45 -0500
Message-ID: <m3eki9skkq.fsf@knuth.knuth.cbbrowne.com> (raw)
References: <002201c4d7d0$9af23330$a101a8c0@home.axiontech.com>
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when yudie@axiontech.com ("Yudie") would write:
> I found bunch of large files (more than 1 gb) in one of database directory.
>
> The files looks like this:
>
>
> 69233123
>
> 69233123.1
>
>
> 69233123.2
>
> 69233123.3
>
> 69233123.4
>
> ...and so on.
>
> These large files very delay the dumping process.
>
> Anyone know what it could be & how to delete the object related? How to find a table by oid?
The phenomenon you are seeing occurs when there is a table with a
great deal of data.
Look for the table via the query:
select * from pg_class where oid = 69233123;
Presumably these files are for a table that contains multiple GB of
data. Or they could be for an index on a very large table.
If the data in the table/index is useless to you, you might consider
dropping the table/index.
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