Jeff Davis wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 22:58 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > It's intentional ... not that other people haven't complained about it > > before. Remember that what you have done is forced a crash, and > > recovery from it is crash recovery. If we proactively removed such > > files we would very possibly be destroying evidence of forensic value. > > I thought that might be the case, but I wasn't able to find any previous > discussions. > > It might be a good idea to issue a warning during recovery, however, > like "possible orphaned file ...". I'm not sure if it's worth the > bookkeeping effort though.
I thought we had a TODO item about removing orphaned files, but I don't see it now, perhaps because I thought we had fixed that. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
