No space left on device log message storm - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bryan Henderson
Subject No space left on device log message storm
Date
Msg-id 96203.bryanh@giraffe-data.com
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List pgsql-general
When the filesystem containing my database fills up, the server repeats
the following log message about as fast as it can log:

  Jun 29 23:00:55 src@giraffe postgres: LOG:  could not write temporary statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/pgstat.tmp": No
spaceleft on device 

Is this an infinite loop or the server just trying a lot of independent
temporary statistics file updates?  This server handles about 5 transactions
per minute.

If it's an infinite loop, does anyone have a feeling whether it's recursive
(the act of logging the error stimulates another attempt) or iterative (the
server just can't take no for an answer)?

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Bryan Henderson                                   San Jose, California

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