X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE33D9FA621 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:38:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16623-08 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:38:11 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from main2.mycybernet.net (main2.mycybernet.net [209.222.63.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 034D09FA5FC for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:37:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 227-54-222-209.mycybernet.net ([209.222.54.227] helo=phlogiston.dydns.org) by main2.mycybernet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G691b-0007Zr-4v for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:47:51 -0400 Received: by phlogiston.dydns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 372984172; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:37:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:37:27 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of? Message-ID: <20060727163727.GC27075@phlogiston.dyndns.org> References: <44C8E7EB.3040608@myemma.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44C8E7EB.3040608@myemma.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.135 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200607/334 X-Sequence-Number: 25908 > 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 -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@crankycanuck.ca If they don't do anything, we don't need their acronym. --Josh Hamilton, on the US FEMA