Re: could not write to hash-join temporary file: No space left on device - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Sean Davis
Subject Re: could not write to hash-join temporary file: No space left on device
Date
Msg-id 200610170959.39942.sdavis2@mail.nih.gov
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In response to Re: could not write to hash-join temporary file: No space left on device  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tuesday 17 October 2006 09:55, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> writes:
> > Just a quick question, but where is the temporary directory that this
> > error is complaining about?  I have plenty of disk space, but just need
> > to know how to move things around....
>
> $PGDATA/base/yourdboid/pgsql_tmp, or something close to that.  You can
> replace that subdirectory by a symlink if you need to.  For security,
> be sure the referenced directory is postgres-owned and mode 700.

That's kinda what I thought--thanks for clarifying.  I have seen this message
only once on a HUGE table, so I just couldn't find the offending file system
easily by free space.

Sean

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