"David M. Richter" <D.Richter@DKFZ-heidelberg.de> writes:
> FATAL 2: ZeroFill(/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog/xlogtemp.30164) failed:
> No such file or directory
You ran out of disk space.
Yes, the error message is misleading. That's fixed in current sources.
See also
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-patches/2001-06/msg00061.html
regards, tom lane