On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Christopher Browne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hah. Almost certainly some file got unlinked, but some backend process > remained holding onto the file descriptor, so the space did not get > returned to the filesystem until that backend process terminated. > > It's pretty likely that you could have done something less dramatic than > restarting PostgreSQL, but the restart was certainly an easy way to > flush out any such hanging FDs.
Yup! :) > I'd anticipate that you'll find things work fine, now. I expect so, I'll know for sure Saturday, when we're upgrading the master (finally the database upgrade purchase request got approved so I have a shiny new server) and then we'll turn replication back on. > There's a mystery there, still, in terms of "what was that lingering > file descriptor???", but it's entirely possible that nothing similar > will ever recur. I would be entirely satisfied if this problem never came back. Thanks!! Aleksey _______________________________________________ Slony1-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slony.info/mailman/listinfo/slony1-general
