Re: When adding millions of rows at once, getting out of disk space errors

From: Mike Christensen <imaudi(at)comcast(dot)net>
To: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: When adding millions of rows at once, getting out of disk space errors
Date: 2009-02-19 10:11:50
Message-ID: 499D3066.10008@comcast.net
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Actually I'm writing emails on my Mac <g>

However, the Postgres service is running on my Windows 2003 machine..

The disk space issue turned out to be a disk quota which was easy to
solve. Unfortunately, the fact it crashed Postgres and with a massive
transaction log left the server in a state where it wouldn't boot
anymore. I was eventually able to fix it by resetting the transaction
log manually. I'm hoping future versions of Postgres will handle this
scenario a lot better..

Mike

Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
> I bet it is on windows (judging by html in that email), but if isn't:
> open a console and issue:
> watch -n 0.5 df -h
> and run that insert again ;)
>
>

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