Re: [PATCHES] Cleaning up unreferenced table files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Cleaning up unreferenced table files
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Msg-id Pine.OSF.4.61.0505110009250.368341@kosh.hut.fi
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Cleaning up unreferenced table files  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Re: [PATCHES] Cleaning up unreferenced table files
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On Tue, 10 May 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> The current code is nice and localized and doesn't add any burden on our
> existing code, which is already complicated enough.  I think we either
> fix checkfiles.c, or we remove it and decide it isn't worth checking for
> unrefrenced files.

Let's pull the patch for now.

I still think we should check for unreferenced files, but it needs some 
more thought and it's by no means urgent.

If I have time later on, I might write a patch to implement the WAL-based 
scheme to see how much change to existing code it really would need.

- Heikki


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