Colleen Williams <colleen@digital-arts.co.uk> writes:
> 3. after stopping and restarting postgresql (postmaster) again the disk
> usage is back to 56%
Oh? Stopping and restarting the postmaster shouldn't make any
difference as far as postgres itself is concerned. May I ask what
you are doing with the postmaster log (stdout & stderr)? How high
do you have the debug level set?
regards, tom lane