2013/12/10 Luis <luisico@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I have noticed a weird thing in different databases. > When I run pg_database_size on some databases they report a pretty > high value and if I take a look to all relations the sum of all of > them is not even the half of the one reported by pg_database_size. > > Although I've seen this in different databases, this is a specific example. > > > This are the sizes reported by this query: > > SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(C.oid)) AS "size" > FROM pg_class C > LEFT JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace) > WHERE nspname NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema') > ORDER BY pg_relation_size(C.oid) DESC > LIMIT 20; > > > size > --------- (…) > And this is the database size reported by this query: > SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('mydb')); > > pg_size_pretty > ---------------- > 3539 MB > > I've read about LOBs but I don't seem to have any. > > Any idea where the space is being used? Indexes for a start. Try: SELECT C.relname, pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(C.oid)) AS "size", pg_size_pretty(pg_indexes_size(C.oid)) AS "idx_size" FROM pg_class C LEFT JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace) WHERE relkind='r' AND nspname NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema') ORDER BY pg_relation_size(C.oid) DESC LIMIT 20; Regards Ian Barwick -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin