Re: Stale temp tables - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Stale temp tables
Date
Msg-id 200203112049.g2BKnMT13187@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Stale temp tables  ("Peter Darley" <pdarley@kinesis-cem.com>)
Responses Re: Stale temp tables  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Re: Stale temp tables  ("Peter Darley" <pdarley@kinesis-cem.com>)
List pgsql-general
Peter Darley wrote:
> Friends,
>     I've got a whole bunch (8,000 or so) of old stale temp tables that were the
> result of a hung backend.  I can see them using pgAdmin II, but not through
> psql.  Is there any way to dump these guys, should I dump them, are they
> likely to be causing problems?  What should I do about this?

Wow, that is a good question.  You can stop the postmaster and start the
'postgres' binary with the -O option and drop them.  -O is required
because they are system tables.

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