On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> The above scenario is only a risk if you suppose that dropping a
>>> relation that lacks physical storage will nonetheless result in
>>> attempted unlink()s. I think that that's probably not the case;
>
>> Why? How would we know that it didn't have physical storage prior to
>> attempting the unlinks?
>
> From the relkind.
Oh, sure, I agree with you in that specific case.
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