orphaned?? tmp files - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Reid Thompson
Subject orphaned?? tmp files
Date
Msg-id 4D6FF5EF.9050405@ateb.com
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Responses Re: orphaned?? tmp files
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Given the below information, is it reasonable to assume that files in pgsql_tmp dated prior to 10 days ago can be
safelyremoved? 

postgres@hw-prod-repdb1> uptime
  15:01:35 up 10 days, 13:50,  3 users,  load average: 1.23, 1.15, 0.63
postgres@hw-prod-repdb1> pwd
/mnt/iscsi/psql_tmp/tmpdata
postgres@hw-prod-repdb1> ls -rtlh *
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres    4 May 11  2009 PG_VERSION

pgsql_tmp:
total 0

41099:
total 3.0G
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8.0K Mar 12  2010 88326
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres    0 Mar 12  2010 88324
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres    0 Mar 16  2010 88580
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres    0 Mar 16  2010 88577.3
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres    0 Mar 16  2010 88577.4
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres    0 Mar 16  2010 88577.5
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8.0K Mar 16  2010 88592
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8.0K Jun  2  2010 94968
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres    0 Jun  2  2010 94966
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8.0K Jun  2  2010 94974
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres    0 Jun  2  2010 94972
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8.0K Aug 26  2010 104559
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres    0 Aug 26  2010 104557
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Oct 27 10:05 88577
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Oct 27 10:07 88577.1
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 824M Oct 27 10:09 88577.2
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 488K Nov  2 12:17 111724
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres  43M Dec  7 14:46 94963
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres  25M Dec  7 14:46 94969
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8.0K Feb 22 15:45 104560
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8.0K Feb 22 15:45 104554
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres  72M Mar  2 16:12 88321

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