Re: PostgreSQL 7.4.16 is creating strange files under /var/lib/pgsql

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Juan Sueiro <jmsueiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm experiencing a weird issue where my postgresql is creating strange files
> (all with the same size ~200MB) under /var/lib/pgsql. The filenames are like
> "?" and "?default". Anyone knows if it's safe to remove those? because they
> are eating my disk space on the /var partition.
> Version: PostgreSQL 7.4.16 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc
> (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)
> Any advices would be really appreciated.

are you 100% sure the database made them? What's the unix mode/owner/etc?

merlin