Re: Disk filled-up issue after a lot of inserts and drop schema

Log rotation was active and set to 5MB or 1 day.
I don’t know if it is a bug, but Postgres was logging even if logging_collector was set to “off”.
Also, that big log file wasn’t visible for me, in fact “ls” and “du” didn’t detect it.

Thanks again

Best regards,
Pietro Pugni

> Il giorno 14 set 2016, alle ore 19:55, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> ha scritto:
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> Pietro Pugni <pietro(dot)pugni(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I’ve jsut discovered the issue.. I set "logging_collector=off” in the previous email but didn’t comment the other log* parameters, so Postgres was logging every single INSERT! This was caused the disk to fill up.
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> Ah.
>
>> The strange issue is that the log file didn’t exists when the disk filled up. I personally looked for it but it wasn’t where it should have been ( /var/log/postgesql/ ), so I can’t exactly confirm that the issue was the log file getting bigger and bigger.
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> Seems like the log file must have gotten unlinked while still active,
> or at least, *something* had an open reference to it. It's hard to
> speculate about the cause for that without more info about how you've got
> the logging set up. (Are you using the log collector? Are you rotating
> logs?) But I seriously doubt it represents a Postgres bug. Unlike the
> situation with data files, it's very hard to see how PG could be holding
> onto a reference to an unused log file. It only ever writes to one log
> file at a time.
>
> regards, tom lane