Thanks ! I'm using JDBC to insert into the tables. Would it throw an SQLException in such a situation ? Rini --- "Diehl, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I happen to know this very well... It handles > things very gracefully as far > as I can tell. I complains that it can't extend the > table and bails out of > the transaction. I just wish it didn't happen so > often... <grin> > > Mike Diehl, > Network Monitoring Tool Devl. > 284-3137 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rini Dutta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: February 20, 2001 9:35 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [SQL] handling of database size exceeding > physical disk space > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know how postgres/ postmaster handles > the > > situation where the physical hard disk space is > full ? > > Does it crash / corrupt the database, or does it > > cleanly exit with appopriate message so that > relevant > > tables can be pruned (by the user) to free up disk > > space and get it working again ? > > > > Thanks, > > Rini > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > - only $35 > > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/