Failed CLUSTER due to insufficient disk space seems to leave temporary files behind at least on 7.4.7.
I used the following perl script to determine if there is files which do not have corresponding entry in pg_class and timestamps of these files matched with failed CLUSTER attempts. Is it safe to remove these files manually? #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=foo", "postgres", "") or die; my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE relfilenode = ?") or die; foreach(<*>) { if(/^\d+$/) { $sth->execute($_); my ($result) = $sth->fetchrow_array; if (! $result) { print "$_\n"; foreach(<$_.*>) { print "$_\n"; } } } } [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/data/base/1045047$ ~as/bin/pg_base.pl | xargs ls -l -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Sep 18 04:09 32857427 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Sep 18 04:14 32857427.1 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Sep 18 04:19 32857427.2 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 747692032 Sep 18 04:22 32857427.3 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 0 Sep 18 04:04 32857429 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Sep 18 04:04 32857431 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 529743872 Sep 18 04:28 32857432 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 529743872 Sep 18 04:39 32857433 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Sep 18 05:00 32857434 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Sep 18 05:01 32857434.1 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 784752640 Sep 18 05:02 32857434.2 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Oct 23 04:13 32870084 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Oct 23 04:19 32870084.1 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Oct 23 04:25 32870084.2 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Oct 23 04:31 32870084.3 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 99000320 Oct 23 04:32 32870084.4 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 0 Oct 23 04:05 32870086 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Oct 23 04:05 32870088 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 584728576 Oct 23 04:38 32870089 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 584728576 Oct 23 04:51 32870090 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Oct 23 05:12 32870091 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Oct 23 05:14 32870091.1 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 831553536 Oct 23 05:15 32870091.2 -- Antti Salmela ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match