Re: Help on copy function - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: Help on copy function
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Msg-id 87wty3jwus.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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In response to Re: Help on copy function  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> writes:

>> It's also possible that PG is trying to create a new table file and
>> he's out of inodes...
>
> Good thought, although I think that this particular error message would
> only come out from a seek/write failure and not from an open failure.
> In any case it's some sort of externally imposed resource limit ...

Yeah.  My first reaction to "inexplicable ENOSPC" is always "are you
out of inodes?" just because I've been bitten by it several times and
felt like an idiot afterwards.  ;)

-Doug
--
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   --T. J. Jackson, 1863

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