On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> I don't know if this is a bug exactly, but it seems pretty unfortunate.
I'll call it a bug and I think it's mine. I've added it to the list of
open items for 9.2
Thanks for testing.
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On 1/8/12, Alex Shulgin wrote:
>
> Jeff Janes writes:
>
>> It looks like it hold the file handles until either is it is killed
>> and restarted, or until they get flushed out of vfd cache (which holds
>> ~1000 files on my machine, so that can be a long time and lot of disk
>> space).
>>
>> I don'
On an overnight test run, I ran into an unexpected "out of space" condition.
The writer process was holding on to dozens of file descriptors for
long-ago deleted files from dropped tables and indexes, preventing
their disk space from being freed for reuse.
I think the checkpoint writer process le
