Removing raw data files - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Carol Walter
Subject Removing raw data files
Date
Msg-id 5F9D1432-42CD-4213-AF8A-138CB3B347F5@indiana.edu
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Responses Re: Removing raw data files  (Tino Schwarze <postgresql@tisc.de>)
Re: Removing raw data files  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Hello,

I asked this question a while ago and I didn't get an answer.
Perhaps I asked the question in a manner that wasn't clear.  I
upgraded from 8.1.3 to 8.2.3.  I left the 8.1.3 database intact in
case I had to revert to it.  The 8.2.3 database is running just fine
and I'd like to recover the space that the 8.1.3 raw data directories
are consuming.  Can I just remove the raw data files with rm -rf on
the data directory for the 8.1.3 version?  This may sound like a
silly question but the database I worked with prior to postgres was
MS SQL Server.  On that platform, you never know when something from
the last version is imbedded in the new version.

Carol


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