Re: file under data

From: David Stanaway <david(at)netventures(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Leong, Fushan" <fushan(dot)leong(at)SonoSite(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: file under data
Date: 2001-10-31 01:04:03
Message-ID: 2D185862-CD9B-11D5-893D-0003930FDAB2@netventures.com.au
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On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 11:26 AM, Leong, Fushan wrote:

> Hi :
>
> Very new in postgres. I created a database and did some
> transactions. I
> found three subdirectories are created under $HOME/data/base. They
> are 1,
> 18719, 18720. Under these "funny" name directory, there are a lot of
> files
> with number as their filename.
>
> What are they? Can I delete them when my disk space is very tide?

The directories under /date/base are databases. The number coresponds
to their oid
the files in those directories are tables and indexes etc..

You may want to look into the vacuumdb command

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David Stanaway
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