On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's just the server message log. While you could blow away the files > without any ill effect, soon enough you'd have another 40GB. You need > to either dial down the verbosity of your what-to-log settings, or > modify the where-to-log settings to recycle log files more frequently, > or both. In particular it sounds like you have set log_statement = all > without, perhaps, understanding the consequences. Read the fine manual > here: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/runtime-config-logging.html > > regards, tom lane > I am using the PGDG rpms. So it has the default logging configs. its rotating daily but i have files there since 2007. is there a config option to delete these files? i looked at the manual and i guess i must be missing the option i want.