Re: postgresql /var fill

Maybe you switched full statement logging on in postgresql.conf? This can result in a considerable amount of logfile data in /var/log/somewhere, often /var/log/postgresql/ (although 15 GB is really quite a lot).

Regards, Frank.

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 19:10:12 +0530 km <km(at)mrna(dot)tn(dot)nic(dot)in> thought long, then sat down and wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have installed postgresql(8.1.4) data dir on a partition (/data) which rests on a separate disk from OS disk. The install dir is default (usr/local/pgsql).
> Now when i use use pgbench with scaling factor of 1000 it creates a whooping 15 GB database. but i see /var partition used space increases considerably - why is this happening ? i expected more free disk space to be used in /data !
> does it mean that the actual database created lies in /var instead of /data ?
> how do i fix it ?
>
> regards,
> KM
>
>
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