Re: Postmaster running out of discspace; Data corruption?

ok :)

Thank you

On 05.04.2005 18:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hannes Dorbath <light(at)theendofthetunnel(dot)de> writes:
>
>>one of our servers did accidently run out of discspace during a huge
>>data load. Postmaster closed the connection with `no space left on
>>device, cannot write x_log' or something similar. We have fsync=false on
>>that machine. Do we have to fear data corruption?
>
>
> No. The reason PG treats out-of-xlog-space as a PANIC is exactly so
> that it won't do anything it can't log safely. Once you get past the
> postmaster restart you're fine.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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