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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Rama Krishnan <[email protected]>
To: Postgres General <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Query about pg_wal directory filled up
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:28:43 +0100
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On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 19:11 +0530, Rama Krishnan wrote:
> One of their main concerns is whether the database will allow `INSERT` queries
> when the `pg_wal` directory becomes full.
>
> As I understand, once the `pg_wal` directory is completely filled, the database
> will allow only read queries and will not permit any write operations.
That is not the case. If pg_wal fills up (more precisely: if creating a new
file in pg_wal fails), PostgreSQL will crash and go down.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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