Hi all, The past few days I’ve been encountering the following error, followed by a full db restart and recovery
2013-12-16 07:12:53 GMT LOG: could not write temporary statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/pgstat.tmp": No space left on device This occurs at a time of moderate load, during the same set of operations each morning. Interestingly, when I execute this manually at any other time of date, the process completes normally. I presume that the pg_stat_tmp location is system-wide and likely is not impacted by temp_tablespaces The root partition, where postgresql is installed does not have a lot of disk available (4GB). My first instinct here is to symlink pg_stat_tmp against another disk with a little more room to breathe, however I’m surprised that pgstat.tmp would grow to be so large in the first place – possibly there is something else at play here. I should note that this issue has only recently occurred, no major changes have been introduced. Thanks for any advice on this. Tim
