On Wednesday July 20 2005 1:13 pm, Ed L. wrote: > I have a 7.4.6 db running on itanium hpux 11.23. It appears a > vacuum ran out of disk space, Oh, and of course, we created extra diskspace before restarting... Ed > > 2005-07-20 13:47:43 [6161] ERROR: DBI::do failed for SQL > [VACUUM VERBOSE] to database clincomm: DBI error: PANIC: > could not write to file > "/users/postgresql-7.4.6/data/pg_xlog/xlogtemp.6178": No space > left on device > > Pgsql was unresponsive, so we sent SIGINT, then SIGQUIT, both > with no response, so finally, sent SIGKILL, then used ipcrm to > clear the shm and semaphores. Then restarted, but upon > restart, it's stuck in "FATAL: the database system is > starting up" mode. > > Any clues??? > > Thanks, > Ed > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked > our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq