postgresql /var fill

Maybe you switched full statement logging on in postgresql.conf? This can result in a considerable amount of logfile data in /var/log/somewhere, often /var/log/postgresql/ (although 15 GB is really quite a lot).

Regards, Frank.

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 19:10:12 +0530 km <km@mrna.tn.nic.in> thought long, then sat down and wrote:

Hi all,

I have installed postgresql(8.1.4) data dir on a partition (/data) which rests on a separate disk from OS disk. The install dir is default (usr/local/pgsql).
Now when i use use pgbench with scaling factor of 1000 it creates a whooping 15 GB database. but i see /var partition used space increases considerably - why is this happening ? i expected more free disk space to be used in /data !
does it mean that the actual database created lies in /var instead of /data ?
how do i fix it ?

regards,
KM

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