Re: file under data

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
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 00:56:21
Message-ID: 20011030165153.M16004-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, 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?

They're the databases and tables and such. Deleting them would be bad.
If you want to see the number/name mappings check out contrib/oid2name

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