On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 12:48 +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote:
> so how much space should be free so that i am able to delete
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> i have a hard disk of size 130 G.
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> thanks,
> regards
> Surabhi
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If you are trying to de
to hang
during delete query
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You can't delete from a full disk
:)No, really: database systems need space for logging, WAL,
whatever.And even with "delete" PostgreSQL will
You can't delete from a full disk :)No, really: database systems need space for logging, WAL, whatever.And even with "delete" PostgreSQL will free no single byte, as deleting is done with marking the row as deleted. Read up on multi version concurrency why this has to be that way.
To reclaim space: