Re: How to cope with low disk space - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Daniel Verite
Subject Re: How to cope with low disk space
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Msg-id 1feaea11-43af-4507-87a3-6f7c9bb2f8cc@mm
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In response to Re: How to cope with low disk space  (Michiel Holtkamp <michiel.holtkamp@soundintel.com>)
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    Michiel Holtkamp wrote:

> Running low on disk space can also happen when something goes wrong
with
> the recording trigger (this can be a hardware fault). In both cases,
we
> don't want to store even more data, but we will want to make a
selection
> based on age (newer data is more important).

Did you think about testing pg_relation_size('pg_largeobject') against
a fixed threshold before allocating new large objects?
If it's higher than the threshold, you could either stop importing new
data, or lo_unlink-ing older entries and immediately issuing a plain
vacuum before continuing.

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