Re: OK, OK, Hiroshi's right: use a seperately-generated filename - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: OK, OK, Hiroshi's right: use a seperately-generated filename
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Msg-id 200006190103.VAA21088@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: OK, OK, Hiroshi's right: use a seperately-generated filename  (Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>)
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> > Yes, we can hard-link, and let vacuum remove the old link.
> 
> BTW, how does vacuum know which files are obsolete. Does it just delete
> files it doesn't know about?
> 
> What a good application for time travel!
> 

I assume it removes files with oid's that match pg_class but who's file
names do not match.

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