On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 12:56 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> My patch also leaves a 0 byte file around from initdb, which is harmless, but
> dirty.
>
> I've seen before where a bunch of 0 byte files are abandoned in an
> otherwise-empty tablespace, with no associated relation, and I have to "rm"
> them to be able to drop the tablespace. Maybe that's a known issue, maybe it's
> due to crashes or other edge case, maybe it's of no consequence, and maybe it's
> already been fixed or being fixed already. But it'd be nice to avoid another
> way to have a 0 byte files - especially ones named with system OIDs.
Do you want to add something to the patch to have pg_upgrade remove
the stray file?
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Robert Haas
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