To get the cluster up and running, you only need to move a GB or two.

On 5/1/19 9:24 PM, Igal Sapir wrote:
Thank you both.  The symlink sounds like a very good idea. My other disk is 100GB and the database is already 130GB so moving the whole thing will require provisioning that will take more time.  I will try the symlinks first.  Possibly moving some tables to a tablespace on the other partition to make more room.

I have a scheduled process that runs daily to delete old data and do full vacuum.  Not sure why this happened (again).

Thanks,

Igal

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 6:02 PM Michael Loftis <mlof...@wgops.com <mailto:mlof...@wgops.com>> wrote:

    Best option....Copy/move the entire  pgdata to a larger space. It may
    also be enough to just move the WAL (leaving a symlink) freeing up the
    623M but I doubt it since VACUUM FULL occurs in the same table space
    and can need an equal amount of space (130G) depending on how much it
    can actually free up.

    You may also get away with just moving (and leaving a symlink) for the
    base but I don't recall if that works or not.

    On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 18:07 Igal Sapir <i...@lucee.org
    <mailto:i...@lucee.org>> wrote:

        I have Postgres running in a Docker container with PGDATA mounted
        from the host. Postgres consume all of the disk space, 130GB [1],
        and can not be started [2].  The database has a lot of bloat due
        to much many deletions.  The problem is that now I can not start
        Postgres at all.

        I mounted an additional partition with 100GB, hoping to fix the
        bloat with a TABLESPACE in the new mount, but how can I do
        anything if Postgres will not start in the first place?

        I expected there to be a tool that can defrag the database files,
        e.g. a "vacuumdb" utility that can run without Postgres.  Or maybe
        run Postgres and disable the WAL so that no new disk space will be
        required.

        Surely, I'm not the first one to experience this issue.  How can I
        fix this?

        Thank you,

        Igal

        [1]
        root@ff818ff7550a:/# du -h --max-depth=1 /pgdata
        625M    /pgdata/pg_wal
        608K    /pgdata/global
        0       /pgdata/pg_commit_ts
        0       /pgdata/pg_dynshmem
        8.0K    /pgdata/pg_notify
        0       /pgdata/pg_serial
        0       /pgdata/pg_snapshots
        16K     /pgdata/pg_subtrans
        0       /pgdata/pg_twophase
        16K     /pgdata/pg_multixact
        130G    /pgdata/base
        0       /pgdata/pg_replslot
        0       /pgdata/pg_tblspc
        0       /pgdata/pg_stat
        0       /pgdata/pg_stat_tmp
        7.9M    /pgdata/pg_xact
        4.0K    /pgdata/pg_logical
        0       /pgdata/tmp
        130G    /pgdata

        [2]
        postgres@1efd26b999ca:/$ /usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_ctl start
        waiting for server to start....2019-05-01 20:43:59.301 UTC [34]
        LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432
        2019-05-01 20:43:59.301 UTC [34] LOG: listening on IPv6 address
        "::", port 5432
        2019-05-01 20:43:59.303 UTC [34] LOG: listening on Unix socket
        "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
        2019-05-01 20:43:59.322 UTC [35] LOG: database system shutdown was
        interrupted; last known up at 2019-05-01 19:37:32 UTC
        2019-05-01 20:43:59.863 UTC [35] LOG: database system was not
        properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress
        2019-05-01 20:43:59.865 UTC [35] LOG:  redo starts at 144/4EFFFC18
        ...2019-05-01 20:44:02.389 UTC [35] LOG: redo done at 144/74FFE060
        2019-05-01 20:44:02.389 UTC [35] LOG:  last completed transaction
        was at log time 2019-04-28 05:05:24.687581+00
        .2019-05-01 20:44:03.474 UTC [35] PANIC: could not write to file
        "pg_logical/replorigin_checkpoint.tmp": No space left on device
        2019-05-01 20:44:03.480 UTC [34] LOG: startup process (PID 35) was
        terminated by signal 6: Aborted
        2019-05-01 20:44:03.480 UTC [34] LOG: aborting startup due to
        startup process failure
        2019-05-01 20:44:03.493 UTC [34] LOG: database system is shut down
         stopped waiting
        pg_ctl: could not start server
        Examine the log output.











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