Out of disk | Postgres.FM 106 |

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Nikolay and Michael discuss Postgres running out of disk space — including what happens, what can cause it, how to recover, and most importantly, how to prevent it from happening in the first place.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:

Disk Full (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/curre...
pgcompacttable https://github.com/dataegret/pgcompac...
Our episode on massive deletes https://postgres.fm/episodes/massive-...
Getting Rid of Data (slides from VLDB 2019 keynote by Tova Milo)
pg_tier https://github.com/tembo-io/pg_tier
Data tiering in Timescale Cloud https://docs.timescale.com/use-timesc...
Postgres is Out of Disk and How to Recover (blog post by Elizabeth Christensen) https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/post...
max_slot_wal_keep_size https://www.postgresql.org/docs/curre...
Our episode on checkpoint tuning https://postgres.fm/episodes/wal-and-...
Aiven docs on full disk issues https://aiven.io/docs/products/postgr...


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Postgres FM is produced by:
Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai https://postgres.ai/
Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard https://pgmustard.com/


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