Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 22:58 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > It's intentional ... not that other people haven't complained about it
> > before. Remember that what you have done is forced a crash, and
> > recovery from it is crash recovery. If we proactively removed such
> > files we would very possibly be destroying evidence of forensic value.
>
> I thought that might be the case, but I wasn't able to find any previous
> discussions.
>
> It might be a good idea to issue a warning during recovery, however,
> like "possible orphaned file ...". I'm not sure if it's worth the
> bookkeeping effort though.
I thought we had a TODO item about removing orphaned files, but I don't
see it now, perhaps because I thought we had fixed that.
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