Willy-Bas Loos <willy...@gmail.com> writes: > Will there be a lot of downtime to delete those 90GB of temp files? > Will postgres just delete those files without processing them or should I > brace for some downtime?
It's just a directory scan and an unlink() for each file that has
the right filename pattern to be a temp file. If you've got a
reasonable filesystem I wouldn't expect it to take long.
Maybe a minute? (but don't quote me on that)
regards, tom lane
