Re: What are these files?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What are these files?
Date: 2006-01-04 17:46:11
Message-ID: 3914.1136396771@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I have some file in my database directories that I can not find an purpose
> to.

Read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/storage.html

Some of this doesn't apply to PG 7.3, but most of it does. In
particular I suspect you are confused about oid vs relfilenode.

regards, tom lane

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