Re: Rather large Postgres directory

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 13:36 +0100, william pink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Unfortuneatly the partition that has the Postgres DB has filled up
> beause of files in the Postgres directory. this partition is 85GB
>
> I tried using Table space to point it at a new partition so I did
>
> exampledb=# CREATE TABLESPACE fastspace LOCATION
> '/var/example/postgres';
>
> which didn't work so I did
>
> example=# SET default_tablespace = fastspace;
>
> but that still didn't work

You have to move the relations to the table space with alter table or
alter index etc...

>
> I also tried VACUUM FULL; last night but this hasn't freed up any
> space, the offending files are
> under /var/databases/8.1/main/base/2832253#
>
> and the files inside the directory look like
>
> 2833195 2836410 2912054 2937747 3463991
> 2832506

At this point you may be better off just doing a backup and restore and
then figure out why your maintenance routines are failing.

Joshua D. Drake

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