David Huttleston Jr writes:
> The file tbl_voters_full.1 is new to me, and it does contain data.
> Is this a temporary table? Is it safely deletable?
>
> ** snipped from a ls of /home/postgres/data/base/pacwebdev
> -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Oct  4 23:53 tbl_voters_full
> -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 144687104 Oct  5 00:09 tbl_voters_full.1
The table "tbl_voters" exceeded 1 GB in size and was thus split up into
two physical files.  You will get .2, .3, etc. each time you grow another
GB.
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