Re: Vacuuming leaked temp tables (once again) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Vacuuming leaked temp tables (once again)
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Msg-id 48651FE7.2020205@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Vacuuming leaked temp tables (once again)  ("Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Or we could have autovacuum just drop orphaned temp tables, *if*
>> they have gotten old enough to need anti-wraparound vacuuming.
>> While I'm still uncomfortable with having autovac drop anything,
>> at least this would avoid the worst cases of "gee I really needed
>> that data to investigate the crash".  The main attractions of this
>> idea are avoiding the corrupt-index issue and not doing vacuuming
>> work that's 99.99% sure to be useless.
>
> That sounds a lot simpler and better to me.

Yeah, when I read the original this one struck me as almost a no-brainer 
choice.

cheers

andrew


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