| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | John Barham <jbarham(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Deleting old files from pgsql_tmp |
| Date: | 2005-11-04 03:08:55 |
| Message-ID: | 200511040308.jA438tp20814@candle.pha.pa.us |
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John Barham wrote:
> Is it safe to delete old files created in pgsql_tmp? I ask because a
> rogue query created almost 800 GB of temporary files and I would like
> to reclaim that disk space. The query was killed (using kill -9 which
> I know is not the right thing to do...) so did not get the chance to
> clean up after itself.
Yes, as long as the files are not associated with any running backend.
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