RE: [SQL] handling of database size exceeding physical disk space

I happen to know this very well...  It handles things very gracefully as far
as I can tell.  I complains that it can't extend the table and bails out of
the transaction.  I just wish it didn't happen so often... 

Mike Diehl,
Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
284-3137
jdiehl@sandia.gov


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rini Dutta [mailto:rinid@rocketmail.com]
> Sent: February 20, 2001 9:35 AM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: [SQL] handling of database size exceeding physical disk space
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how postgres/ postmaster handles the
> situation where the physical hard disk space is full ?
> Does it crash / corrupt the database, or does it
> cleanly exit with appopriate message so that relevant
> tables can be pruned (by the user) to free up disk
> space and get it working again ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rini
> 
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