From: | Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: safelly erasing dirs/files |
Date: | 2009-11-14 19:50:07 |
Message-ID: | 20091114195006.GA16147@tux |
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Joao Ferreira gmail <joao(dot)miguel(dot)c(dot)ferreira(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> my problem is I a heavilly bloated pg database that has just filled up
> the partition
>
> data is in /var/pgsql/.. and /var is 100% full...
>
> vacuum/reindex is saying: I can't do it cause I have no space :(
>
> how do I un-bloat the /var partition ? this is why I was considering
> rm !!!!
Which version do you have? 8.4? If yes, you can create a new tablespace
on an other partition/disk and alter table set tablespace <your new
tablespace>.
Indexes you can DROP and recreate.
But never ever delete files on os-level!
Andreas
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