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From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Deleting a table file does not raise an error when the table is touched afterwards, why?
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On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 3:32 PM, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
​I have to think that we can reasonably ascribe unexpected system state to causes other than human behavior.  In both of the other examples PostgreSQL would fail to start so I'd say we have expected behavior in the face of those particular unexpected system states.

Alex Ignatov started a new thread was started on this topic as well...​


I posted a link to this thread on his new one as well.

David J.​

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