handling of database size exceeding physical disk space

I happen to know this very well... It handles things very gracefully as far
as I can tell. I complains that it can't extend the table and bails out of
the transaction. I just wish it didn't happen so often... <grin>

Mike Diehl,
Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
284-3137
jdiehl@sandia.gov

Thanks ! I'm using JDBC to insert into the tables.
Would it throw an SQLException in such a situation ?

Rini

--- "Diehl, Jeffrey" <jdiehl@sandia.gov> wrote:

I happen to know this very well... It handles
things very gracefully as far
as I can tell. I complains that it can't extend the
table and bails out of
the transaction. I just wish it didn't happen so
often... <grin>

Mike Diehl,
Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
284-3137
jdiehl@sandia.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Rini Dutta [mailto:rinid@rocketmail.com]
Sent: February 20, 2001 9:35 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org;

pgsql-sql@postgresql.org

Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: [SQL] handling of database size exceeding

physical disk space

Hi,

Does anyone know how postgres/ postmaster handles

the

situation where the physical hard disk space is

full ?

Does it crash / corrupt the database, or does it
cleanly exit with appopriate message so that

relevant

tables can be pruned (by the user) to free up disk
space and get it working again ?

Thanks,
Rini

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