Re: What is the tuplestore?

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What is the tuplestore?
Date: 2018-12-11 04:52:33
Message-ID: 34798dc7-6f07-5628-5201-c2108729c0aa@gmail.com
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I extracted the queries from pg_log and sent them to the customer team.  To
fill up 96GB of disk space seems like the customer selected a huge date range.

On 12/10/2018 06:07 PM, Rene Romero Benavides wrote:
> Yes, pgsql_tmp, you ought to be looking for a sudden and drastic jump in
> space utilization around the time of the error message. You're not
> concerned with the current space utilization, but with the one around that
> time, because, it probably got freed right after the error was raised.
> How many times has this happened ? what kind of queries were running at
> that time? can you identify something that could have required lots of
> temporary space?
>
> Am Mo., 10. Dez. 2018 um 17:33 Uhr schrieb Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>>:
>
> Which file system (specifically, which directory)?  Is it
> data/base/pgsql_tmp?  There's 96GB free, which is 74% of the volume.
>
> On 12/10/2018 04:50 PM, Rene Romero Benavides wrote:
>> Maybe the temp space got released right after the failure?
>> https://grokbase.com/t/postgresql/pgsql-general/02ag7k8gcr/tuplestore-write-failed
>> do you have space usage charts for that partition? doesn't it show a
>> spike during that time?
>>
>> Am Mo., 10. Dez. 2018 um 15:54 Uhr schrieb Ron
>> <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>>:
>>
>> There's certainly a problem with the application, but the error
>> is in the pg_log, not the application log.
>>
>> On 12/10/2018 03:21 PM, Rene Romero Benavides wrote:
>>> What if this error message pertains to something happening on
>>> the application side?
>>>
>>> Am Mo., 10. Dez. 2018 um 09:56 Uhr schrieb Ron
>>> <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> v9.6.6
>>>
>>>
>>> 2018-12-07 06:21:55.504 EST 10.140.181.89(35868) CDS CDSLBXW
>>> 13748 SELECT
>>> PostgreSQL JDBC Driver 53100 ERROR:  could not write to
>>> tuplestore temporary
>>> file: No space left on device
>>>
>>> I see this in the pg_log file, but #1 can't figure out what
>>> "tuplestore" is
>>> (Google doesn't help), and #2 there's lots of space on all
>>> my file systems.
>>> data/base, where pgsql_tmp lives, has 96GB free.)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
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