M Rather <mrather@definedlogic.com> writes:
> one of our clients is using pgsql 8.1, and recently the site crashed due
> to lack of hard disk space. Upon inspection a file was found :
> pgsql.broken.csc (size: > 51 GB)
> I cannot find any reference to this file on pgsql site or on google.
> What is this file? Is it related to PGSQL? What caused it to grow to
> this size?
PG would never make a file named that.
Did you try looking into the file to see what it contains?
regards, tom lane