From: Tino Schwarze <postgresql@tisc.de>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Removing raw data files
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:33:55 +0200
Message-ID: <20080707183355.GH26287@easy2.in-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F9D1432-42CD-4213-AF8A-138CB3B347F5@indiana.edu>
References: <5F9D1432-42CD-4213-AF8A-138CB3B347F5@indiana.edu>
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:19:19PM -0400, Carol Walter wrote:
> I asked this question a while ago and I didn't get an answer.
> Perhaps I asked the question in a manner that wasn't clear. I
> upgraded from 8.1.3 to 8.2.3. I left the 8.1.3 database intact in
> case I had to revert to it. The 8.2.3 database is running just fine
> and I'd like to recover the space that the 8.1.3 raw data directories
> are consuming. Can I just remove the raw data files with rm -rf on
> the data directory for the 8.1.3 version? This may sound like a
> silly question but the database I worked with prior to postgres was
> MS SQL Server. On that platform, you never know when something from
> the last version is imbedded in the new version.
You can safely remove everything from the previous installation - I'm
supposing, your 8.2.x data directory is totally separate?
There is no hidden connection between both data directories. You dumped
everything into a file, so everything was in that file, then you
restored to 8.2.x, so everything is in 8.2.x now.
HTH,
Tino.
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