Michel BELLON <michel.bellon@free.fr> writes:
> My system use version 7.1.2 (OK ! I know it's time to upgrade do 8.0.1
> version. But, I'am happy to use yet postgresql)
> I had a problem with a hard drive 100% full.
> The system is OK now, but I discovered 10 files approximately 1 GB each in a
> directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/###### named pg_sorttemp#####.##.
> The date of this files is 2004-03-18 (I suppose the exact date dosn't matter)
> Question : Is it possible to delete this file without precaution ?
Sure; as long as they're too old to belong to a currently-active
process, they're junk.
You really should get off 7.1.* ASAP though. It has a lot of
will-eat-your-data bugs.
regards, tom lane