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From	David G. Johnston
Subject	Re: [GENERAL] Large and Growing Group of Files
Date	March 14, 2017 05:20:50
Msg-id	CAKFQuwb-8_+K6SrxYVP3ZaX6SR4-C-8554B+G1kCRQydRgQ=gg@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw
In response to	Re: [GENERAL] Large and Growing Group of Files (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

John Iliffe <john.iliffe@iliffe.ca> writes:
> Can anybody tell what these files are and what they do, and more importantly
> if they are needed?

They are database table files, and you will certainly be unhappy if you
just manually rm them.

You can read some theory here:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/storage.html

In particular note the paragraph whose leading sentence is:

"Tablespaces make the scenario more complicated."

What you showed up was the "far end" of a custom tablespace link.

David J.

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