On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:12 PM, David Johnston <pol...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Having recently had a pg_dump error out due to not having enough disk it > occurs to me that it would be nice for pg_dump to remove the partial dump > file it was creating (if possible/known) instead of having it sit around > taking up that last bit of available space and itself being unusable for > restore purposes anyway. Given these tend to be large the benefit to > cleanup seems quite strong and fairly direct to accomplish since we just > created the file only a short while previous. Call it a beginner or > part-time-dba usability feature. > I don't think I like this. If I unexpectedly filled up a partition with a dump file, I think the first thing I would want to do is 'head' or 'more' the partial dump to see what is making it so big--e.g. that I am dumping the wrong cluster/database/schema. I wouldn't want the software to hide the evidence. Cheers, Jeff
