Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Anyway, I am still thinking about this. I haven't addressed tables that
> are orphaned by a rename aborting.
>>
>> What makes you think that needs to be addressed? We don't have that
>> problem anymore AFAIK.
> If one backend creates a new file for alter table, but crashes before
> modifying pg_class, doesn't that file just hang around?
ALTER TABLE doesn't create any new files.
regards, tom lane
