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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Deleted files still open long after droping a database
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Msg-id 2700.1392662111@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Deleted files still open long after droping a database  (Vincent de Phily <vincent.dephily@mobile-devices.fr>)
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Vincent de Phily <vincent.dephily@mobile-devices.fr> writes:
> I have droped a database a few hours ago to reclaim some badly-needed space,
> but that disk space has not been freed yet. Investigating further, there are
> lots of deleted but open files that seem to correspond to the droped db, all
> open by some postgres process.

I believe this is taken care of in recent PG releases.  9.1.2 is, um,
not recent.

            regards, tom lane

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