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. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
