Re: [GENERAL] Extraneous Files

2011-10-20 Thread Ian Harding
Well, they are actually streaming replication slaves, and I boogered up the rsync command, so there they are. I diffed the directories from the master to the slave, and think I will go ahead and delete all the files that don't appear in both places and see what happens. Worst case, I have to set t

Re: [GENERAL] Extraneous Files

2011-10-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/20/11 12:14 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: Well, Ian isn't talking about removing data. What he was asking (I believe) is how to remove from the data directory files which got nothing to do with the database in question (but probably look like database files because, say, someone copied*another

Re: [GENERAL] Extraneous Files

2011-10-20 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 02:32:18PM -0400, Scott Mead wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ian Harding wrote: > > > If someone happened to accidentally end up with a lot of files that > > were NOT part of their database in the data/base/X directory, how > > could they go about getting a

Re: [GENERAL] Extraneous Files

2011-10-20 Thread Scott Mead
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ian Harding wrote: > If someone happened to accidentally end up with a lot of files that > were NOT part of their database in the data/base/X directory, how > could they go about getting a reliable list of files they could safely > delete? The files were ther

[GENERAL] Extraneous Files

2011-10-20 Thread Ian Harding
If someone happened to accidentally end up with a lot of files that were NOT part of their database in the data/base/X directory, how could they go about getting a reliable list of files they could safely delete? The files were there before the current incarnation of the database, so have ctim