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On 05.08.2016 17:51, Tom Lane wrote:
Grigory Smolkin <g.smolkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I`ve noticed interesting aspect in temp tables working. It appears
postgres is trying to reserve space on disk for temp tables even before
temp_buffers overflow.
Sure.  Just like it reserves space for ordinary tables right away,
long before there's any need to push the data out of shared_buffers.
Otherwise, you might find yourself having to throw an "out of disk
space" error after having already committed the relevant INSERTs.

			regards, tom lane


How about out of space when we filling WAL files? Just rollback and nothing else. We can fall in this with space reservation for WAL files.

In this situation with temp table we reserved space long before we ever need it if we have size of temp table < temp_buffer. Why not just rollback transaction in "Out of space" situation? With this preliminary reservation we use HDD resource but in fact we dont need it. In situation with high rate creation of temp table, we saturate HDD resource with "just in case" reservation.

Have we any other explanation except "out of space" problem? May be there is some fundamental things tied with that?

Alex Ignatov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company



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