Eduardo Morras <emorr...@yahoo.es> writes:
> "Powrie, William" <wpow...@indracompany.com> wrote:
>> The files in pg_clog increase on a day to day basis until the ramdisk
>> reaches 100% utilization. This takes roughly 30 days to occur and
>> postgresql fails at this point.
> pg_clog stores information about current commit status for open/active
> transactions. Do you close all transactions after they're work is done? Do
> you have any in "IDLE in transaction" state?
Leaving prepared transactions sitting (without committing them or
rolling them back) could do this as well, I believe.
8.4 seems to default to max_prepared_transactions = 0 so it would
take some extra work to shoot yourself in the foot that way, but
it's definitely possible.
regards, tom lane
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