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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Error: file pg_psort*
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Msg-id 5578.985708837@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Error: file pg_psort*  (Juan Manuel García Arias <desarrollo@centrored.com>)
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Juan Manuel García Arias <desarrollo@centrored.com> writes:
> �What is this file?
> �what can I do? One of this file is of 2.6 Gb

Files named like that are just temporary files for sorting; you can
remove them if the creating process isn't around anymore.

BTW, consider updating to a more recent version of Postgres.  We haven't
named the temp files like that for quite a while.
        regards, tom lane

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