"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> writes: > Sorry, my last mail got cut off. The server aborted because it couldn't > write the xlog. Looks like I omitted this from my last mail: Selective quoting of the log output? Naughty naughty. However, that still doesn't explain how you got into the current state. Had you once had checkpoint_segments set much higher than the current value of 24? On looking at the code I see that it doesn't make any attempt to prune future log segments after a decrease in checkpoint_segments, so if a previous misconfiguration had allowed the number of future segments to get really large, that could be the root of the issue. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend