On Feb 5, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Eliott <eliott100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear community, > > I've just noticed that in one of our databases many duplicate tables had appeared all ending in _copy. These tables are owned by postgres not the db owner user, other than that they seem to be a replica from a specific time in the past. I suspect that a failed backup might have cased these, but I am not sure. I couldn't find any info tables ending in _copy and also I thought that backups run in a transaction so even if they create temporary tables, they should disappear even when the backups fail. > > Can you confirm that this was due to a failed backup? It’s not. It sounds like something that a client app would do, possibly as part of a (failed) data migration. What app is using the database? > Is it safe to delete all _copy tables? Should I do any additional housekeeping to clean this up? Cheers, Steve -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
