Re: quota's ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sander Steffann
Subject Re: quota's ?
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Msg-id 004b01c0c0e8$30f82b90$7101a8c0@OFFICE
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In response to Re: quota's ?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-general
Hi,

> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 01:46:48PM -0400, Doug McNaught wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> >
> > > Doug McNaught writes:
> > >
> > > > Doing this would almost certainly result in a corrupted database
once
> > > > you ran up against the limit.
> > >
> > > I think you can give PostgreSQL a little more credit than that.  ;-)
> >
> > I'm very glad to hear it.  A lot of applications don't cope with
> > filesystem-full/quota-exceeded very well at all.  ;)
>
> I've not been following postgres-hackers as closely as I should, but
> as of the first betas of 7.1, it would corrupt your database horribly
> if you ran out of space.
>
> I think this has been fixed, but you might wanna check with hackers or
> release nots.

Just to make sure: what DOES happen if PostgreSQL runs out of space?

Sander.



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