>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Hannes Erven <hannes@erven.at> writes:
>> I've just had a "VACUUM FULL <table>" crash due to 100% disk usage.
>> Clearly my fault, I was expecting the new table to be small enough.
Tom> What do you mean by "crash" exactly? A normal transactional
Tom> failure should've cleaned up orphaned files. I suppose if the
Tom> kernel decided to kill -9 the vacuum process, that wouldn't happen
Tom> --- but that's not the usual response to out-of-disk-space.
The failure mode of this kind we see reported most often is getting a
PANIC failure from inability to extend the WAL.
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