Looks safe. Patch applied.
> I found the answer to this: the partition had filled up, and so the problem
> was lack of disk space.
>
> Could we have a more helpful error message? I was just looking in the
> wrong direction because of the contents of the message.
>
> *** postgresql-7.1.1.orig/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c Tue May 22
> 16:45:14 2001
> --- postgresql-7.1.1/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c Tue May 22 16:48:12
> 2001***************
> *** 1334,1340 ****
> unlink(tmppath);
> errno = save_errno;
>
> ! elog(STOP, "ZeroFill(%s) failed: %m", tmppath);
> }
> }
>
> --- 1334,1340 ----
> unlink(tmppath);
> errno = save_errno;
>
> ! elog(STOP, "ZeroFill failed to create or write %s: %m", tmppath);
> }
> }
>
>
> --
> Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
> Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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> ========================================
> "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we
> are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not
> forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing
> about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that
> the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our
> body." II Corinthians 4:8-10
>
>
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