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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Grzegorz Dostatni <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Size on Disk
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:53:27 -0500
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Grzegorz Dostatni <[email protected]> writes:
> Currently the datase is roughly 80 Megs. About half of
> the size is stored in pg_xlog directory. I managed to
> figure out that those files are transaction log files?
> How can I delete them safely?

You can NOT.  Don't even think about going there.

What you can do, if you intend only low-update-volume usage,
is reduce checkpoint_segments to reduce the number of WAL files
the system wants to keep around.

			regards, tom lane

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