Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com> writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> I have work someone did in the past. I just need to be updated to deal
>> with tablespaces.
>>
>> ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches/checkfile.*
> It looks nice, but I would not like automatic deletion (or only optional
> or configurable), there might be valid reasons for "alien" files to
> exist. (README files for admins to communicate what this directory is
> used for, MacOS ressource forks, Reiser4 special files etc...)
> What about putting the identification code in a set returning function
> or view that can be called by the admin.
Yeah, one thing I never liked about the previously proposed patches was
that they were tied to postmaster start/restart. It'd be better to have
an external tool that could be invoked on demand. Maybe something close
to oid2name.
regards, tom lane
