Re: Huge increase of database partition

You're right, indeed.
I saw same phenomenon today, and i have seen that the pgsql_tmp
directory was full of temporary files linked to a particular query.
After i killed the query , postgres cleaned directory.
So, if i understand right, for avoid that the temp files crash data
partition (and my db), i should create a new tablespace, and change
param "temp_tablespaces" in postgresql configuration, right ?

Thomas

Le 24/10/2013 16:26, Plugge, Joe R. a écrit :
>
> Yes, did you perhaps have a long running query that was doing lots of
> sorts, if so it creates as many 1 GB temp files as it takes to
> complete the sort, and they go into your data partition by default.
> Once the query completes, postgres cleans them up.
>
> *From:*pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] *On Behalf Of *Thomas SIMON
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 24, 2013 9:21 AM
> *To:* pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> *Subject:* [ADMIN] Huge increase of database partition
>
> Hi the list,
>
> Yesterday, i have had a big problem of disk space on my server,
> running postgresql 9.0.13; with streaming replication.
>
> Between 6pm and 7-30pm, i went from 45% used space to 99% (100% ?)
> used space on my /data partition (who contains my
> postgresql/9.0/main/base ; but does not contains the WAL; they are
> deported on an other partition). - seen only after with munin -
>
> Juste after that - still according to munin- , the partition suddently
> decreases to its normal value (around 45%)
> This peak represents around 165 Go of data ! ; beacause my partition
> size is 315 Go.
>
> I can't explain why, it's the first time i have something like this.
> Usually, the size of the partition is very stable ; and grows very slowly.
> Still with munin, i see that in this period, the blocks read per
> second increases from around 20k to 80k, and i see that the disk
> utilisation is around 100%, which confirms that postgres wrote a lot
> of data.
>
> I don't understand how this can happen, have you ever seen things like
> this ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Thomas
>