Re: File leak? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: File leak?
Date
Msg-id 26635.1087062609@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to File leak?  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
Responses Re: File leak?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: File leak?  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> I wonder if we could clean up those lost files on database recovery or
> vacuum.

There is a TODO for this, but it seems exceedingly low priority to me.

In any case I'd not recommend troubling to work on the problem until
the tablespaces merry-go-round comes to a complete stop, since that
restructuring will likely change what you'd need to do to identify
unreferenced files.
        regards, tom lane


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