Re: Help on copy function

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
Cc: frederic(dot)germaneau(at)bull(dot)net, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help on copy function
Date: 2004-10-06 22:20:09
Message-ID: 811.1097101209@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> writes:
>>> psql:lineitem.loader.psql:1: ERROR: could not extend relation
>>> 24342131/24342133
>>> /24342324: There is not enough space in the file system.
>>> HINT: Check free disk space.
>>
>> Maybe you are running the postmaster under a disk-space-usage limit?
>> I'm not sure that there's a separate errno for "you can't have any
>> more space" as opposed to "there isn't any more space".

> It's also possible that PG is trying to create a new table file and
> he's out of inodes...

Good thought, although I think that this particular error message would
only come out from a seek/write failure and not from an open failure.
In any case it's some sort of externally imposed resource limit ...

regards, tom lane

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