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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: freeing disk space used by postgresql/postmaster
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Msg-id 25613.984064774@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to freeing disk space used by postgresql/postmaster  (Colleen Williams <colleen@digital-arts.co.uk>)
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Colleen Williams <colleen@digital-arts.co.uk> writes:
> 3. after stopping and restarting postgresql (postmaster) again the disk
> usage is back to 56%

Oh?  Stopping and restarting the postmaster shouldn't make any
difference as far as postgres itself is concerned.  May I ask what
you are doing with the postmaster log (stdout & stderr)?  How high
do you have the debug level set?

            regards, tom lane

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