I happen to know this very well... It handles things very gracefully as far
as I can tell. I complains that it can't extend the table and bails out of
the transaction. I just wish it didn't happen so often... <grin>
Mike Diehl,
Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
284-3137
jdiehl(at)sandia(dot)gov
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rini Dutta [mailto:rinid(at)rocketmail(dot)com]
> Sent: February 20, 2001 9:35 AM
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [SQL] handling of database size exceeding physical disk space
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how postgres/ postmaster handles the
> situation where the physical hard disk space is full ?
> Does it crash / corrupt the database, or does it
> cleanly exit with appopriate message so that relevant
> tables can be pruned (by the user) to free up disk
> space and get it working again ?
>
> Thanks,
> Rini
>
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