Re: drop database

From: pabloa98 <pabloa98(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andrew Kerber <andrew(dot)kerber(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Lewis <mlewis(at)entrata(dot)com>, Julie Nishimura <juliezain(at)hotmail(dot)com>, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: drop database
Date: 2019-10-17 22:23:35
Message-ID: CAEjudX4Ybp1=jENVAOKMO2xLukCQkFFG1p0nex-dX5wk417WBg@mail.gmail.com
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Perhaps you want to TRUNCATE TABLEs. That will mitigate any I/O impact

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 3:13 PM Andrew Kerber <andrew(dot)kerber(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> If you are decommissioning the database, why not just rm -rf the whole
> system?
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 4:31 PM Michael Lewis <mlewis(at)entrata(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Your plan to loop over tables and truncate them seems great if you are
>> worried. It seems simple to verify that space is being freed as you go, and
>> also easy to change tactics if the need arises.
>>
>>>
>
> --
> Andrew W. Kerber
>
> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
>

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