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 -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
