Re: Temporary table has become problematically persistent - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ricky Ramirez
Subject Re: Temporary table has become problematically persistent
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Msg-id CAFbL3BobE9Pi6s3tMKp+c=C_h+DVahONcqvpn4TA9+ntiJ0NUQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Temporary table has become problematically persistent  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Forgive me for forgetting the basics PG 11.2 on Ubuntu Bionic, amd64. No extensions enabled.

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 4:54 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Ricky Ramirez <ricky@reddit.com> writes:
> We have run into a strange situation with our database. A temporary table
> was created some time ago and that session has since died. However, the
> temporary table stuck around. It's been around long enough that postgres
> stopped accepting writes to prevent transaction ID wraparound. Problem is,
> it's a temporary table and the session that it's associated with is gone,
> so we cannot vacuum it nor even drop the table. We even restarted postgres
> and the temporary table was still there!

Hm, what PG version is this?  I thought we'd fixed that hazard quite some
while back.

                        regards, tom lane

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