Re: Postmaster will not restart

On 30-Jul-2001 Tom Lane wrote:

>> DEBUG:  database system was shut down at 2001-07-30 21:17:17 BST
>> DEBUG:  CheckPoint record at (0, 214140268)
>> DEBUG:  Redo record at (0, 214140268); Undo record at (0, 0); Shutdown
>> TRUE
>> DEBUG:  NextTransactionId: 221440; NextOid: 617393
>> FATAL 2:  ZeroFill(/work/database/postgres/pg_xlog/xlogtemp.449)
>> failed: No such file or directory
>
> Looks to me like you have insufficient free space on your disk --- the
> code is trying to create another 16-MB WAL segment, and is failing,
> no doubt for lack of free space.  (Yes, the quoted kernel error message
> is incorrect ... that problem is patched in current sources.)

Embarassing, isn't it!  The disc space was being consumed by a transient
log file elsewhere on the same drive.  Thanks for the humane treatment
of such a mundae problem!

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Mark J Hewitt at home           E-Mail: Mark J Hewitt <m.hewitt@computer.org>
Date: 31-Jul-2001  Time: 00:09:44