Re: pgsql.broken.csc - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql.broken.csc
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Msg-id 24470.1193762916@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pgsql.broken.csc  (M Rather <mrather@definedlogic.com>)
Responses Re: pgsql.broken.csc  (M Rather <mrather@definedlogic.com>)
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M Rather <mrather@definedlogic.com> writes:
> one of our clients is using pgsql 8.1, and recently the site crashed due
> to lack of hard disk space. Upon inspection a file was found :

> pgsql.broken.csc  (size: > 51 GB)

> I cannot find any reference to this file on pgsql site or on google.

> What is this file? Is it related to PGSQL? What caused it to grow to
> this size?

PG would never make a file named that.

Did you try looking into the file to see what it contains?

            regards, tom lane

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