Re: After upgrade to 9.5 space not being released

On Fri, Jun  3, 2016 at 01:40:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ganesh Kannan <ganesh.kannan@weatheranalytics.com> writes:
> > Sorry I meant to say I did not remove the old data directory given they are hard links, and not soft links. I
thoughtI should not remove those hard links when using "pg_upgrade --link" option. 
>
> As long as those old files still have hard links in the old data
> directory, they are not going to go away.
>
> Note that if you're using tablespaces, you need to clear out the
> appropriate tablespace subdirectories, not only the old data
> directory proper.

Uh, after the upgrade, the output say:

    Running this script will delete the old cluster's data files:
        ./delete_old_cluster.sh

That script is designed to do this cleanup.

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