Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A87DB5DC2A for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:19:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06487-01 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:19:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.8.0-rc2 Received: from smtp-out-1.01.com (smtp.01.com [216.115.88.169]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8D3B5DC29 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:19:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-out-1.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA0479D013A for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:19:39 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp-out-1.01.com Received: from smtp-out-1.01.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp-out-1.01.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DWZEyDirkiqf for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:19:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-out-1.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E5C9D014A for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:19:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from Sidney-Stratton.local (70-36-143-92.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net [70.36.143.92]) by smtp-out-1.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 165219D013A for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:19:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4E987D3A.9030309@agliodbs.com> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:19:38 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Organization: PostgreSQL Experts Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Tablespace files deleted automatically. References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201110/142 X-Sequence-Number: 45364 Vishnu, > I am using PostgreSQL 8.4 in windows. I have created a database and > some tables on it. Also created a table space and some tables in it. My > application inserts data into these tables in every second. The > application is a continuous running application. My issue is that after > a 20-30 days continuous run ( Machine logged off 2 times), some of the > files in the \16384 folder of newly created table space are dropped > automatically. Can you tell me the reason for this.? How can we > recover from this? PostgreSQL creates and deletes files all the time. I don't understand why this is a problem. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com