On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:45:29PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Gregory S. Williamson" <gsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 2006-01-02 00:30:01 LOG: could not close temporary statistics file "/data/postgres/gex_runtime/global/pgstat.tmp.1453": No space left on device > > 2006-01-02 00:33:54 ERROR: could not access status of transaction 0 > > DETAIL: could not write to file "/data/postgres/gex_runtime/pg_clog/0AFA" at offset 196608: No space left on device > > Just kill -9 all the postgres processes; everything you need should be > safely down in the WAL files. Another alternative: most unix filesistems actually set it up so that there is still some free space left even if it's reporting 100%. On FreeBSD, you can change the amount of reserved space with tunefs -m, but you should read the caveats in man tunefs. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
