Re: pgsql database .1 .2 .3 file names

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Bryan Biggers wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what the data file names with the .1 .2 .3 etc.
> extensions are? Are these undo versions of my tables or something? I
> need to recover some disk space and I'm wondering if I need them. Here
> is an example...
> -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Oct 18 20:01 19523580
> -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Sep  6 20:11 19523580.1
> -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Sep  6 20:11 19523580.2
> -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Sep  6 20:11 19523580.3
> -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Sep  6 20:11 19523580.4
> -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Oct  6 20:19 19523580.5
> -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 629948416 Oct 19 12:33 19523580.6

Those are further extents of the table after 1G.  The table gets broken to
try to prevent running into any issues with >=2G files.