URGENT: Database crashed - No space left on device - Production down
manankharwar
HOBBYOP

2 months ago

Hi Railway team,

My production PostgreSQL database is completely down due to storage exhaustion.

ERROR: "PANIC: could not write to file "pg_wal/xlogtemp.30": No space left on device"

Database cannot start up because WAL files can't write to disk.

Current situation:

- Database service: postgres-production-8551.up.railway.app

- Project: overflowing-happiness (production)

- At 75% capacity before crash, now completely full

- Need emergency storage increase to restore service

Root cause identified: scan_data JSONB column consuming 172MB Plan: Drop scan_data column once database is accessible

Request: Temporary storage increase to restore database service.

This is blocking production. Please help ASAP.

Solved

2 Replies

Railway
BOT

2 months ago

Hey there! We've found the following might help you get unblocked faster:

If you find the answer from one of these, please let us know by solving the thread!


echohack
EMPLOYEE

2 months ago

Hiya,

I see that you redeployed and expanded your Volume, which is definitely the solution when you're out of storage. Are you good to go?


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 2 months ago


Railway
BOT

2 months ago

This thread has been marked as solved automatically due to a lack of recent activity. Please re-open this thread or create a new one if you require further assistance. Thank you!

Status changed to Solved Railway about 2 months ago


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