| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Markus Wollny <Markus(dot)Wollny(at)computec(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Naming-scheme for db-files |
| Date: | 2002-08-28 14:30:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20020829003017.C27041@svana.org |
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:54:45PM +0200, Markus Wollny wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As I was just checking disk-usage of a database (PostgreSQL 7.2.1), I
> stumbled over some files named with a trailing .1 added to the usual
> oid. Now if a table 'example' with oid 12345 exists, what does the file
> 12345.1 contain exactly? I didn't find anything about .1-files in the
> documentation...
Postgres splits files at 1GB. The .1 file would be the second part of the
file. When that also reaches 1GB, you'll get a .2 file.
You're doing VACUUM [FULL] regularly, right?
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
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