Re: full data disk -- any chance of recovery

Ben Kim wrote:

>Just curious, I guess the problem is not simply the disk full now, but
>supposing the disk full is the only problem, what would happen if we move
>some old files temporarily from pg_xlog/* to somewhere else and free up
>some disk space? (On mine, I guess I can get about 75 MB, leaving the most
>recent ones: say, dated today.)
>
>

Uhmmm don't do that :). You need to find something else. The pg_xlog is
your transaction logs.

>
>
>>>I tried
>>>su - postgres -c '/apps/pgsql-7.4/bin/pg_ctl stop -D /data/postgres/gex_runtime -m immediate'
>>>
>>>on one of the two hozed servers and that's (I think) what got this:
>>>
>>>
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>
>Regards,
>
>Ben Kim
>Developer
>http://benix.tamu.edu
>
>
>
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