Matthew Wakeling <matthew 'at' flymine.org> writes: > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >> Also, IIRC when PG writes data up to a full filesystem, >> postmaster won't be able to then restart if the filesystem is >> still full (it needs some free disk space for its startup). >> >> Or maybe this has been fixed in recent versions? > > Ah, the "not enough space to delete file, delete some files and try > again" problem. Anyway, that isn't relevant to the reserved > percentage, as that will happen whether or not the filesystem is 5% > smaller. It is still relevant, as with 5% margin, you can afford changing that to 0% with tune2fs, just the time for you to start PG and remove some data by SQL, then shutdown and set the margin to 5% again. -- Guillaume Cottenceau
