On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 19:09, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 04:17 pm, Hannu Krosing wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 22:10, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > The pre-upgrade script is run in an environment that isn't robust enough > > > to handle that. What if you run out of disk space during the dump? > > > You can either check beforehand or abort and delete the offending > > dumpfile. > > And what if you have enough disk space to do the dump, but then that causes > the OS upgrade to abort because there wasn't enough space left to finish > upgrading (larger packages, perhaps)? The system's hosed, and it's our > fault.
What normally happens when you have low amounts of free diskspace and attempt to upgrade the system? On FreeBSD (portupgrade) it rolls back any changes it was attempting. I don't know other systems to be able to say. Postgresql may require more diskspace to upgrade than most packages, but if the tools cannot fail cleanly it is already a problem that needs to be addressed. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
