From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
To: Brandon Shalton <brandon@cydataservices.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: disk filling up
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:48:36 +1200
Message-ID: <46A940E4.40804@paradise.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009c01c7cfa0$ab526810$fc01a8c0@blaptop>
References: <009c01c7cfa0$ab526810$fc01a8c0@blaptop>
Brandon Shalton wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My hard disk is filling up in the /base directory to where it has
> consumed all 200gig of that drive.
>
> All the posts that i see keep saying move to a bigger drive, but at
> some point a bigger drive would just get consumed.
>
> How can i keep the disk from filling up other than get like a half TB
> setup just to hold the ./base/* folder
>
Two things come to mind:
- Vacuum as already mentioned by others.
- Temporary sort files from queries needing to sort massive amounts of data.
But you need to help us out by supplying more info...
Cheers
Mark
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