On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:06:44AM -0400, Zeki Mokhtarzada wrote:
> Very interesting... We recently changed the location of the data files
> using a symbolic link. Although all of the files had the correct ownership,
> the new parent directory was not owned by postgres. The strange thing
> is that we have been running like this for over a week, and even now,
> only the log table was effected (the log table is the only table that
> has a large number of data changing, most of the other tables are
> relatively static). Changing the owner of the parent directory to
> postgres fixed the problem.
Probably, this is because on other tables you do not need to create new
segments, while the ev_log table is big enough to need some.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
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