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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:37:27 -0400
Message-ID: <20060727163727.GC27075@phlogiston.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C8E7EB.3040608@myemma.com>
References: <44C8E7EB.3040608@myemma.com>


> administration or maintenance on it that I know of...)  How about the 
> WAL files in pg_xlog?  How critical are they when no data on the system 
> is critical in and of itself?  Any suggestions would be greatly 
> appreciated...

If the data isn't critical, you maybe could truncate a table to clear
enough space.  Deleting anything under pg_xlog is more or less
guaranteed to mean your database is garbage.

A

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Andrew Sullivan  | ajs@crankycanuck.ca
If they don't do anything, we don't need their acronym.
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