Re: Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?
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Msg-id 20060727163727.GC27075@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?  (Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>)
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> 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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