On Tuesday 17 October 2006 09:55, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> writes:
> > Just a quick question, but where is the temporary directory that this
> > error is complaining about? I have plenty of disk space, but just need
> > to know how to move things around....
>
> $PGDATA/base/yourdboid/pgsql_tmp, or something close to that. You can
> replace that subdirectory by a symlink if you need to. For security,
> be sure the referenced directory is postgres-owned and mode 700.
That's kinda what I thought--thanks for clarifying. I have seen this message
only once on a HUGE table, so I just couldn't find the offending file system
easily by free space.
Sean