From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | william pink <will(dot)pink(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Rather large Postgres directory |
Date: | 2009-04-29 15:59:20 |
Message-ID: | 1241020760.25579.86.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 13:36 +0100, william pink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Unfortuneatly the partition that has the Postgres DB has filled up
> beause of files in the Postgres directory. this partition is 85GB
>
> I tried using Table space to point it at a new partition so I did
>
> exampledb=# CREATE TABLESPACE fastspace LOCATION
> '/var/example/postgres';
>
> which didn't work so I did
>
> example=# SET default_tablespace = fastspace;
>
> but that still didn't work
You have to move the relations to the table space with alter table or
alter index etc...
>
> I also tried VACUUM FULL; last night but this hasn't freed up any
> space, the offending files are
> under /var/databases/8.1/main/base/2832253#
>
> and the files inside the directory look like
>
> 2833195 2836410 2912054 2937747 3463991
> 2832506
At this point you may be better off just doing a backup and restore and
then figure out why your maintenance routines are failing.
Joshua D. Drake
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