Re: quota's ?

From: "Sander Steffann" <steffann(at)nederland(dot)net>
To: "Adam Haberlach" <adam(at)newsnipple(dot)com>, "Doug McNaught" <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
Cc: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Richard Huxton" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, "Kris Van Hulle" <uxs(at)compulink(dot)gr>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: quota's ?
Date: 2001-04-09 11:28:13
Message-ID: 004b01c0c0e8$30f82b90$7101a8c0@OFFICE
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Hi,

> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 01:46:48PM -0400, Doug McNaught wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> >
> > > Doug McNaught writes:
> > >
> > > > Doing this would almost certainly result in a corrupted database
once
> > > > you ran up against the limit.
> > >
> > > I think you can give PostgreSQL a little more credit than that. ;-)
> >
> > I'm very glad to hear it. A lot of applications don't cope with
> > filesystem-full/quota-exceeded very well at all. ;)
>
> I've not been following postgres-hackers as closely as I should, but
> as of the first betas of 7.1, it would corrupt your database horribly
> if you ran out of space.
>
> I think this has been fixed, but you might wanna check with hackers or
> release nots.

Just to make sure: what DOES happen if PostgreSQL runs out of space?

Sander.

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