Re: Safe to delete files?

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?


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