Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Will there be a lot of downtime to delete those 90GB of temp files? > Will postgres just delete those files without processing them or should I > brace for some downtime? It's just a directory scan and an unlink() for each file that has the right filename pattern to be a temp file. If you've got a reasonable filesystem I wouldn't expect it to take long. Maybe a minute? (but don't quote me on that) regards, tom lane