Re: BUG #13974: temp_file_limit effects vacuum

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> andreas.papst@univie.ac.at wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure, it works as intended, but maybe it is useful to other
>> postgres users too to have stated in the description of
>> temp_file_limit
>> that this value effects vacuum runs too:
>> vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "test" failed: ERROR:  temporary file
>> size exceeds temp_file_limit (2097152kB)

> This seems like a bug to me.

I don't know what vacuum would be doing that would involve creating
temp files at all.  Seems like we need more information here.

            regards, tom lane