[ADMIN] OID and filesystem issues

2008-04-15 Thread lfedden
Hi All, I have a couple of questions hopefully someone can help me with. 1) Does every relation exist in pg_class? Can we assume that if there is a file with OID which is not present in pg_class, this file can be deleted? (we have a few such files, some of them take more than 2G of space in to

Re: [ADMIN] OID and filesystem issues

2008-04-15 Thread lfedden
Hi Tom, Thanks for your reply. I did mean the data/OIDs from the relfilenode column in pg_class. Even when logged in as root, a 'ls -l' command returns: mm2:/var/lib/pgsql82/data/base/16673 # ls -lash | more /bin/ls: 19357877: Permission denied /bin/ls: 19569529: Permission denied /bin/ls: 1956