Re: After upgrade to 9.5 space not being released

From: Ganesh Kannan <ganesh(dot)kannan(at)weatheranalytics(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: After upgrade to 9.5 space not being released
Date: 2016-06-03 17:31:56
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Tom,
Sorry I meant to say I did not remove the old data directory given they are hard links, and not soft links. I thought I should not remove those hard links when using "pg_upgrade --link" option.
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From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Sent: Friday, June 3, 2016 1:05:57 PM
To: Ganesh Kannan
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] After upgrade to 9.5 space not being released

Ganesh Kannan <ganesh(dot)kannan(at)weatheranalytics(dot)com> writes:
> Upgraded a very large database from Pg 9.4.7 to 9.5.3 , using pg_upgrade --link option.

Did you ever remove the old data directory? If not, the table files are
still linked there.

regards, tom lane

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