> On Oct 9, 2024, at 5:52 AM, Torsten Förtsch <tfoertsch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
Mikael, if you’re unaware of VACUUM FULL (as opposed to just VACUUM), you
should read about that too.
Hope that helps,
Philip
