Tom Lane wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > 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.
Agreed on the need to wait until after tablespaces. I have an old patch that does lookups on postmaster start to check for unreferenced files, but it wasn't perfect. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
