Re: clean out ./data/base/pgsql_tmp

From: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dylan Luong <Dylan(dot)Luong(at)unisa(dot)edu(dot)au>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: clean out ./data/base/pgsql_tmp
Date: 2017-12-07 05:00:38
Message-ID: CAMkU=1yvm6dxqPjkQhQsWbgxQ7Yqm1tDNfHGaUm5Cj_2i322Uw@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Dylan Luong <Dylan(dot)Luong(at)unisa(dot)edu(dot)au>
wrote:

> Hi
>
>
>
> We have an issue where one of the developers ran a large query that hung
> was filling up the DATA drive very rapidly. From 50% usage to 95% in less
> than 2hrs.
>
> It created a very large pgsql_tmp size (300GB). To stop the drive filling
> up we had to kill the process manually using kill -9.
>

Did you try kill -15 first? If you did try it and it did not work, then
that is probably a bug. And if you have a reproducible test case, then we
will probably be able to fix it.

Cheers,

Jeff

In response to

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message John R Pierce 2017-12-07 05:02:13 Re: Migrating From CentOS-6 Oracle 11g R2 To CentOS-7 PostgreSQL ??
Previous Message Michael Paquier 2017-12-07 04:36:26 Re: clean out ./data/base/pgsql_tmp