On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 04:03 -0700, Rob Audenaerde wrote: > I have a Postgresql 8.3 instance with tablespaces totalling on about 74G. This is fine. > > But if I ask Postgresql how big my database is, I get a (unexpected) large answer: 595 GB. > > This seems very strange. Disk I/O tests on the system are in the 'normal' range, but queries are slower than they used to be. > > Is this corruption of the database? Or are there ways to 'fix' this oddity? > > Btw: > > I check the tablespace size by the os: > > /usr/local/pgsql/data/tblspaces/du -c -h > 74G total > > All tablespaces are there. I check this by the \db command in pgsql > > I check te database size like this: > > select pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('database')) > 595 GB You should also check the space held in $PGDATA/base. -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin