Re: Deleted files still open long after droping a database

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vincent de Phily <vincent(dot)dephily(at)mobile-devices(dot)fr>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Deleted files still open long after droping a database
Date: 2014-02-17 18:35:11
Message-ID: 2700.1392662111@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Vincent de Phily <vincent(dot)dephily(at)mobile-devices(dot)fr> writes:
> I have droped a database a few hours ago to reclaim some badly-needed space,
> but that disk space has not been freed yet. Investigating further, there are
> lots of deleted but open files that seem to correspond to the droped db, all
> open by some postgres process.

I believe this is taken care of in recent PG releases. 9.1.2 is, um,
not recent.

regards, tom lane

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