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.
Useful functions in that context are pg_relation_size(), pg_table_size(), pg_total_relation_size() and some more. Check out the manual for more information.
Example:
SELECT oid::regclass::text, relfilenode, pg_relation_size(oid) as size FROM pg_class ORDER BY size DESC;
On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 10:10 AM Mikael Petterson <mikaelpetterson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,I find our disk is filling up.sudo find /var/lib -type f -size +100M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'/var/lib/rpm/Packages: 278M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16583: 392M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16588: 173M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16633: 106M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16644: 179M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16662: 438M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16665: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16667: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16668: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16780: 466M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16786: 182M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16788: 163M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16789: 315M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16790: 126M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16665.2: 403M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.7: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.6: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.9: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.8: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.6: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.4: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.5: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16668.3: 586M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.10: 458M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.1: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.2: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.2: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16668.1: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.3: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16659.3: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.4: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16665.1: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.5: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16586.1: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16668.2: 1.0G/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/16667.1: 741M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/4652676: 502M/var/lib/pgsql/12/data/base/16384/4652688: 155MHow can I clean up?What can I do to clean up. We are using pgsql 12.Br,//Mikael
