Re: Vacuum error message

Raymond McKolay <RMcKolay@brittenbanners.com> writes:
> I took the files from the directory they were in and changed the path.
> I guess I don't understand how to copy the contents of the file to accomplish what you are asking.
> I presumed that by changing the path of the files the vacuum operation would either skip them or error out saying
thatthey were missing. 

I'd have expected a missing-files failure, too.  Are you sure the error
message was the same thing for the same files?  If this is a filesystem
corruption, it's quite possible it affects more than one file.  There's
no very good reason to assume VACUUM would visit the files in the same
order every time, either, so it's possible it would fail on some other
table before getting to this one.

But anyway, what Kevin and I were suggesting was that you try to
duplicate the files, using "cp" on the command line, or Duplicate
in the Finder.

> I am pretty sure that a vacuum full is eventually what needs to happen since the DB contains useless records and I
needthe disk space given back to the OS. 
> But then again I'm no expert with postgres so I am only guessing.

The error message you have told us about is *entirely* unrelated to
needing extra disk space.  It's about being unable to read a file that
is already there.

            regards, tom lane