Re: [HACKERS] pg_sorttemp files

2001-10-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Thus spake Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: BTW, if you are seeing unreclaimed sorttemp files in a recent release (7.0 or later), I'd like to know about it. That shouldn't happen, short of a backend crash anyway... Well, I had over 6,000 of these files.

Re: [HACKERS] pg_sorttemp files

2001-10-20 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Thus spake Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: BTW, if you are seeing unreclaimed sorttemp files in a recent release (7.0 or later), I'd like to know about it. That shouldn't happen, short of a backend crash anyway... Well, I had over 6,000 of these files. This

Re: [HACKERS] pg_sorttemp files

2001-10-19 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Thus spake Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: I have tons of old files with names like base/db/pg_sorttemp.##. I assume that they are temporary sorting files but somehow they never got cleared out. Is it safe to delete these from a running system. The files are

Re: [HACKERS] pg_sorttemp files

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: BTW, if you are seeing unreclaimed sorttemp files in a recent release (7.0 or later), I'd like to know about it. That shouldn't happen, short of a backend crash anyway... Well, I had over 6,000 of these files. This database is about a year old.

Re: [HACKERS] pg_sorttemp files

2001-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: I have tons of old files with names like base/db/pg_sorttemp.##. I assume that they are temporary sorting files but somehow they never got cleared out. Is it safe to delete these from a running system. The files are months old. The first

[HACKERS] pg_sorttemp files

2001-10-17 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
I have tons of old files with names like base/db/pg_sorttemp.##. I assume that they are temporary sorting files but somehow they never got cleared out. Is it safe to delete these from a running system. The files are months old. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain darcy@{druid|vex}.net | Democracy is

Re: [HACKERS] pg_sorttemp files

2001-10-17 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
My guess is probably yes it's ok - just shut down the server before deleting them! Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D'Arcy J.M. Cain Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2001 3:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HACKERS] pg_sorttemp