Re: file under data

delete them is bad.. but you can not let them grow forever........

When and how to clean up these files?

thanks
Fushan

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan Szabo [mailto:sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 4:56 PM
To: Leong, Fushan
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] file under data


On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Leong, Fushan wrote:

> Hi :
>
>    Very new in postgres.  I created a database and did some transactions.
I
> found three subdirectories are created under $HOME/data/base.  They are
1,
> 18719, 18720.  Under these "funny" name directory, there are a lot of
files
> with number as their filename.
>
> What are they?  Can I delete them when my disk space is very tide?

They're the databases and tables and such.  Deleting them would be bad.
If you want to see the number/name mappings check out contrib/oid2name