Tom, I'm not sure how to check about the postgres user disk space limit issue. I tried storing a rather large file on the postgres partition as the postgres user and had no problem. I'm more suspicious of the file stored in:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] data]# ls -l /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_xlog/ total 16404 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16777216 Apr 7 12:14 000000010000001E Is it typical? It doesn't look it. Anyway, I've got plenty of space but am unsure of the next step. Tom Bakken Information Resource Manager Texas USDA, Rural Development -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 5:25 PM To: Tom Bakken Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Out of space "Tom Bakken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, it's truncated and now I've got plenty of space, but it's still > complaining that it can't find the xlogtemp.1405: > FATAL 2: ZeroFill(/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_xlog/xlogtemp.1405) failed: No > such file or directory I think the "no such file" errno is probably actively misleading. I took another look at the CVS logs and realized that in 7.1.2, there is no guarantee that that message actually reflects the cause of the write failure --- if write() indicates it couldn't write all the bytes, but does not set errno, then the reported errno will be left over from the last failed operation. We had patched this by 7.1.3, which is the version I was looking at locally. Since ENOENT can't be returned by write() AFAIK, it seems certain that this is indeed a leftover errno setting. In short, I still think you are running into some kind of out-of-disk-space failure. I'm not sure what, but you might look to whether you've exceeded the postgres user's disk space quota, or anything along that line. Keep in mind also that an unprivileged user account normally can't fill the disk as full as root can. regards, tom lane
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