Re: full data disk -- any chance of recovery - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tomaz Borstnar
Subject Re: full data disk -- any chance of recovery
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In response to Re: full data disk -- any chance of recovery  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane pravi:
> Tomaz Borstnar <tomaz.borstnar@over.net> writes:
>> Jeff Frost pravi:
>>> Seems like you're going to have to kill -9.
>
>> Yeah, this is bad :( Seems like kill -9 is needed when disk is full. Tested on *BSD jails.
>
> With what PG version?
8.0.x for sure.

> And what behavior did you see exactly?

Postgresql was running inside jail. All was fine until partition filled up and at this point kill -9 was the only
option 
to stop postgresql in jail. It said about stopping by administrative command, but it did not exit - kill -9 was the
only 
solution without rebooting.


Tomaž

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