Re: Safe to delete files?

I did it in pgadmin, without begin commit.

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 4:24 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 4/13/19 7:10 AM, Paul van der Linden wrote:
> > It was just 99 files of 1GB each for each id, and no I didn't vacuum.
> > I did see disk usage dropping quite a lot after dropping those tables
> > though, so I expected postgres to delete all unneccesary files for all
> > the tables.
> >
> > However when checking just now I saw that the files I was referring to
> > were indeed deleted somehow (don't have an autovacuum running).
> > So not sure how or why, but my problem is solved
>
> Did you DROP the tables in a transaction and look at the the directory
> previously before you issued COMMIT?
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>