| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Steve Peterson <stevep-hv(at)zpfe(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: DROP TABLESPACE fails |
| Date: | 2006-08-08 01:57:37 |
| Message-ID: | 24446.1155002257@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:36:49PM -0500, Steve Peterson wrote:
>> DROP TABLESPACE x returns 'tablespace "x" is not empty', but if I
>> examine the 'referenced by' tab in pgAdmin nothing is listed. The
>> tablespace directory contains several very large files.
>>
>> Can these files be deleted safely with the server shut down?
> I'd recommend investigating what the files are before deleting them.
Indeed.
> The large files are probably within a database's subdirectory and
> their names are probably numbers.
Yeah, most likely they belong to a different database. We should try
harder to give a helpful error message in this case ... we can't really
identify the files but we could tell you which database they belong to.
regards, tom lane
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