Jamie Koceniak <jkoceniak@mediamath.com> writes:
> If I don't remove the orphaned files, is there any change that Postgres could use the same file node (oid) again?
> For example, say file node 2602351127 doesn't exist anywhere in pg_class, could Postgres use that same file node id
again?
> What would happen in that case?
It will not overwrite an existing file when selecting a new relfilenode.
regards, tom lane
