Re: File leak? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: File leak?
Date
Msg-id Pine.OSF.4.58.0406132158540.429250@kosh.hut.fi
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In response to Re: File leak?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: File leak?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> > I wonder if we could clean up those lost files on database recovery or
> > vacuum.
>
> There is a TODO for this, but it seems exceedingly low priority to me.

Are you sure? I read through the TODO list but couldn't find it.

> In any case I'd not recommend troubling to work on the problem until
> the tablespaces merry-go-round comes to a complete stop, since that
> restructuring will likely change what you'd need to do to identify
> unreferenced files.

Ok. I'll to take a look at this later.

- Heikki



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