Re: fd.c doesn't remove files on a crash-restart - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: fd.c doesn't remove files on a crash-restart
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Msg-id 56E9A09F.5040202@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: fd.c doesn't remove files on a crash-restart  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On 03/16/2016 11:04 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2016-03-16 11:02:09 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>> 3. The problem can get worse over time. If you have a very long running
>>>> instance, any time the backend crash-restarts you have to potential to
>>>> increase disk space used for no purpose.
>>>
>>> But I think these outweigh the debugging benefit.
>>
>> Well as Andrew said, we could also create postmaster start option that
>> defaults to don't save.
>
> I think these days you'd simply use restart_after_crash = false. For
> debugging I found that to be rather valuable.

That would have created an extended outage for this installation. I am 
not sure we can force that for something that should not happen in the 
first place (filling up the hard drive with dead files).

JD

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