Brian Cox <brian.cox@xxxxxx> writes: > I changed the logic to update the table in 1M row batches. However, > after 159M rows, I get: > ERROR: could not extend relation 1663/16385/19505: wrote only 4096 of > 8192 bytes at block 7621407 You're out of disk space. > A df run on this machine shows plenty of space: Per-user quota restriction, perhaps? I'm also wondering about temporary files, although I suppose 100G worth of temp files is a bit much for this query. But you need to watch df while the query is happening, rather than suppose that an after-the-fact reading means anything. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance