[postgis-users] No Space Left on Device Error

Michael Treglia mtreglia at gmail.com
Wed May 4 06:13:00 PDT 2016


Okay, this makes sense - the tables have 1,082,210 and 245,508 rows for the
bldgs and gee_ndvi_2013_merged, respectively. Can you suggest how to add
the join condition? Or point to an example?

Thanks for this insight!
mike

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Nicolas Ribot <nicolas.ribot at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There is no join condition between your bldgs and gee_ndvi_2013_merged
> (how many rows in this table ?) tables so your query is doing a cartesian
> product: all bldgs rows x all gee_ndvi_2013_merged rows.
>
>
>
> On 4 May 2016 at 12:35, Michael Treglia <mtreglia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm new to the list and pretty new to PostGIS, and would greatly
>> appreciate any suggestions for troubleshooting an error I get when running
>> a query on a large set of data. It seems like PostGIS is the most efficient
>> way to accomplish what I'm going for, so I'm excited to get this working as
>> a I add this to my toolkit.
>>
>> I'm running the query below on a vector layer of ~1 million polygons
>> (bldgs) and a raster of ~2 billion pixels (gee_ndvi_2013_merged). This
>> works on a small sample area and does exactly what I want (having
>> previously clipped both the raster and vector to a small area), but when I
>> run it on the full dataset, I get this error after ~4 hours:
>> ERROR: could not write block 212381621 of temporary file: No space left
>> on device
>> SQL state: 53100
>>
>> My machine has plenty of available disk space, and I set the
>> temp_file_limit in the postgresql.conf file to 500gb (and I have 32GB of
>> ram if that's informative at all). I'm running the db from PostgreSQL 9.5
>> and postgis 2.2.2 on Windows 7 x64 (and get the error when running both on
>> that setup, and from an Ubuntu virtualbox as a client)
>>
>> Here's the query:
>> --SQL
>> SELECT bin,
>> geom,
>> countgrn,
>> countttl,
>> (countgrn::float / countttl::float)*100 as propgrn
>> into resultsvectorlayers.try1_may3
>> FROM (
>>  SELECT bin,
>>  (ST_SummaryStats(ST_Union(ST_Clip(rast,st_buffer(bldgs.geom_2263,
>> -9.84252))),true)).count as countgrn,
>>  (ST_SummaryStats(ST_Union(ST_Clip(rast,st_buffer(bldgs.geom_2263,
>> -9.84252))),false)).count as countttl,
>>  (ST_BUFFER(bldgs.geom_2263, -9.84252)) as geom
>>  FROM staging.gee_ndvi_2013_merged, staging.bldgs
>>  GROUP BY bin, geom_2263) AS foo;
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot or resolve this? Or if it seems
>> like there's a better way I should execute this operation, I'm open to that
>> too
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any advice!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Mike Treglia
>>
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