Re: PostgreSQL 9.3 ERROR

Greetings Denise,

* Ferrell, Denise D CTR NSWCDD, H11 (denise(dot)ferrell(dot)ctr(at)navy(dot)mil) wrote:
> Running on Linux...has anyone else encountered this?
>
> Receiving the following error in the pg_log file:
>
> "could not extend the "pg_tblspc/23917/PG_9.3_201306121/16385/55041.5": wrote only 4096 of 8192 bytes at block 722183"

That error indicates that the filesystem ran out of disk space.

> I was under the impression that PostgreSQL allocates 1G per tablespace file.

That is incorrect. In PostgreSQL, a "tablespace" is a directory. Every
table in PostgreSQL consists of a set of files. None of the individual
files for a PostgreSQL table will be larger than 1G, but PostgreSQL will
use multiple files when it reaches 1G in size.

In the above case, the table/index with relfilenode 55041 in the
database with oid 16385 has grown to be over 5G in size. The files:

55041
55041.1
55041.2
55041.3
55041.4
55041.5

are all associated with that table/index.

Thanks!

Stephen