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
>
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