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From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
To: glen@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Glen Darby)
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: temp files and dual dbs 
Reply-To: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 22 Sep 1994 11:16:31 +1000 (EST) 
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glen@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Glen Darby) writes:
> Firstly I seem to get a lot of tempxxx files generated in the
> ~postgres/data/base/appdb directory. Can I just remove this files, what
> causes them or should I get postgres to remove them somehow ?

if you don't have any backends running at the time, it's safe to
remove them.

> Secondly when the remote db and the local db actually live on the same
> machine I occasionally get crashes from postgres indicating that the local
> db doesnt exist when in fact it does.

i don't understand what you mean by "remote db" and "local db", i.e.,
whether there are two postmasters running on different machines, or
one set of database directories are nfs-mounted and the other is not,
or what.
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  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
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