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Re: Postmaster running out of discspace; Data corruption?

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Hannes Dorbath <light@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> one of our servers did accidently run out of discspace during a huge 
> data load. Postmaster closed the connection with `no space left on 
> device, cannot write x_log' or something similar. We have fsync=false on 
> that machine. Do we have to fear data corruption?

No.  The reason PG treats out-of-xlog-space as a PANIC is exactly so
that it won't do anything it can't log safely.  Once you get past the
postmaster restart you're fine.

			regards, tom lane

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