Sir, The base table is having bytea and having records around 32 lakhs shows size of 300 mb. bytea field has attached documents size is not shown in the base table. The message on Tomcat is --begin text -- 4 Jun, 2014 3:29:07 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke INFO: WARN [TP-Processor24] JDBCExceptionReporter.logExceptions(100) | SQL Error: 0, SQLState: 42P01 ERROR [TP-Processor24] JDBCExceptionReporter.logExceptions(101) | ERROR: relation "public.file_attachments" does not exist Position: 238 org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not execute query at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:90) at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert(JDBCExceptionHelper.java:66) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2231) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.listIgnoreQueryCache(Loader.java:2125) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.list(Loader.java:2120) at org.hibernate.loader.criteria.CriteriaLoader.list(CriteriaLoader.java:118) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.list(SessionImpl.java:1596) at org.hibernate.impl.CriteriaImpl.list(CriteriaImpl.java:306) at org.hibernate.impl.CriteriaImpl.uniqueResult(CriteriaImpl.java:328) at com.nic.edistrict.certificates.dao.impl.FileAttachmentsDaoImpl.getFileAttachments(FileAttachmentsDaoImpl.java:53) at com.nic.edistrict.certificates.service.impl.FileAttachmentsManagerImpl.getFileAttachments(FileAttachmentsManagerImpl.java:28) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1999.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:28 --end text Even though table is present and connections are opening for subsequently. The message appear at frequent intervals. Is there any way to see the complete size of a table which has bytea filed like database pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size('file_attachments') shows just 300 mb. Any help is welcome. Regards Ramachandran s -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/bytea-Issue-Reg-tp5805838p5806146.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.