John Barham wrote:
> Is it safe to delete old files created in pgsql_tmp? I ask because a
> rogue query created almost 800 GB of temporary files and I would like
> to reclaim that disk space. The query was killed (using kill -9 which
> I know is not the right thing to do...) so did not get the chance to
> clean up after itself.
Yes, as long as the files are not associated with any running backend.
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