could not write to hash-join temporary file: No space left on device

Question

I am executing PostgreSQL functions to update a table which has a huge amount of data and the update happens for about 100000 records everyday. During the update I get an error saying:

"could not write to hash-join temporary file: No space left on device"

I have not really been able to get something useful to overcome this error. I got something where it says to SET a temporary table spaces. But I was not able to find how do I create a temporary table space where the data will be stored during the executing of the update procedure.

Answer 1

1. SQL> create tablespace temp_tbs location '/some/big/disk';
2. change temp_tablespaces = 'temp_tbs' in postgresql.conf.
3. select pg_reload_conf();
4. enjoy

Answer 2

I got the same issue, but I was working with docker.

Just in case if you are working with docker too, go to:

Docker Preferences > Disk Panel > Disk image size and increase it.

It solved my problem.