Re: file under data - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: file under data
Date
Msg-id 20011030165153.M16004-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to file under data  ("Leong, Fushan" <fushan.leong@SonoSite.com>)
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Leong, Fushan wrote:

> Hi :
>
>    Very new in postgres.  I created a database and did some transactions.  I
> found three subdirectories are created under $HOME/data/base.  They are  1,
> 18719, 18720.  Under these "funny" name directory, there are a lot of files
> with number as their filename.
>
> What are they?  Can I delete them when my disk space is very tide?

They're the databases and tables and such.  Deleting them would be bad.
If you want to see the number/name mappings check out contrib/oid2name



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