Re: Removing raw data files

Uh-huh.  I like this answer.  Will do this and send result.  Might be
interesting.

Carol

On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I asked this question a while ago and I didn't get an answer.
>> Perhaps I
>> asked the question in a manner that wasn't clear.  I upgraded from
>> 8.1.3 to
>> 8.2.3.  I left the 8.1.3 database intact in case I had to revert
>> to it.  The
>> 8.2.3 database is running just fine and I'd like to recover the
>> space that
>> the 8.1.3 raw data directories are consuming.  Can I just remove
>> the raw
>> data files with rm -rf on the data directory for the 8.1.3
>> version?  This
>> may sound like a silly question but the database I worked with
>> prior to
>> postgres was MS SQL Server.  On that platform, you never know when
>> something
>> from the last version is imbedded in the new version.
>
> The cautious sysadmin in me says to set the directory to owner root
> and perms 000 so it's not accesible.  Then if something goes horribly
> wrong, you've still got the original directory.  If not, after a week
> or two you can delete it knowing nothing is accessing it.