Re: PANIC: could not create file "pg_xlog/xlogtemp.7884": No space left on device

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: "Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar)" <rshalgar(at)cisco(dot)com>, 'PostgreSQL' <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PANIC: could not create file "pg_xlog/xlogtemp.7884": No space left on device
Date: 2014-09-26 16:11:19
Message-ID: 54259027.6070400@iol.ie
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On 25/09/2014 11:44, Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar) wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am using version 9.3.1 and see the “no space device error” even though
> there is enough space (99% free) on my disk.
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> Error: PANIC: could not create file "pg_xlog/xlogtemp.7884": No space
> left on device
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> I want to know whether this is a bug and if yes whether fix or
> workaround is available.

It's not a bug - you're out of disk space. As it happens, I saw a blog
post yesterday on precisely this problem, and approaches to fixing it:

http://blog.endpoint.com/2014/09/pgxlog-disk-space-problem-on-postgres.html

HTH,

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
rod(at)iol(dot)ie

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