Re: no space left on device - Mailing list pgsql-general

Aurangzeb M. Agha wrote:

>I've not run a vacuum in quite some time, and that's because I've only
>been doing reads from this DB.  I was under the impression that I should
>run vacuum when tables are heavily modified:
>
>

That would be accurate. Did you recently add a second database?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/node110.html
>
>I guess I must have been mistaken?
>
>I'm looking through the docs now, but am having trouble finding this: how
>can I vacuum the entire DB at once?
>
>Thx,
>
>Zeb
>
>On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>:
>:>
>:>Note that the pg_xlog dir is huge!  Here's its contents:
>:>
>:>[postgres - DB/pg_xlog]$ ls -al
>:>total 32816
>:>drwx------    2 postgres admin        4096 Mar 29  2003 .
>:>drwx------    6 postgres admin        4096 Jan  9 15:04 ..
>:>-rwx------    1 postgres admin    16777216 Jan  9 15:09 0000000000000001
>:>-rwx------    1 postgres admin    16777216 Mar 29  2003 0000000000000002
>:>
>:>What are these files, and what can I do to resolve this issue?
>:>
>:>
>:The are check_point files. You need them. Have you ran a vacuum recently?
>:
>:Sincerely,
>:
>:Joshua D. Drake
>:
>:
>:
>:>Thx,
>:>
>:>Zeb
>:>
>:>
>:>--
>:>DEBUG:  statistics collector process (pid 2523) exited with exit code 1
>:>PGSTAT: Error closing temp stats file
>:>PGSTAT: /usr/local/G101/App/DB/./global/pgstat.tmp.7823: No space left on
>:>device
>:>PGSTAT: AbDEBUG:  statistics collector process (pid 2979) exited with exit
>:>code
>:>1
>:>FATAL 2:  write of clog file 43, offset 188416 failed: No space left on
>:>device
>:>DEBUG:  server process (pid 3741) exited with exit code 2
>:>DEBUG:  terminating any other active server processes
>:>NOTICE:  Message from PostgreSQL backend:
>:>        The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend
>:>        died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
>:>        I have rolled back the current transaction and am
>:>        going to terminate your database system connection and exit.
>:>        Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
>:>NOTICE:  Message from PostgreSQL backend:
>:>        The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend
>:>        died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
>:>        I have rolled back the current transaction and am
>:>        going to terminate your database system connection and exit.
>:>        Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
>:>NOTICE:  Message from PostgreSQL backend:
>:>        The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend
>:>        died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
>:>        I have rolled back the current transaction and am
>:>        going to terminate your database system connection and exit.
>:>        Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
>:>DEBUG:  all server processes terminated; reinitializing shared memory and
>:>semaph
>:>ores
>:>DEBUG:  database system was interrupted at 2004-01-09 05:22:52 EST
>:>DEBUG:  checkpoint record is at 0/138CFD4
>:>DEBUG:  redo record is at 0/138CFD4; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
>:>DEBUG:  next transaction id: 45811837; next oid: 65205
>:>DEBUG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in
>:>progre
>:>ss
>:>DEBUG:  redo starts at 0/138D014
>:>FATAL 2:  write of clog file 43, offset 188416 failed: No space left on
>:>device
>:>DEBUG:  startup process (pid 3785) exited with exit code 2
>:>DEBUG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure
>:>
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