Re: BUG #16427: pgsql_tmp - temp files not released

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Euler Taveira <euler(dot)taveira(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, murali(dot)natti(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #16427: pgsql_tmp - temp files not released
Date: 2020-05-11 06:10:34
Message-ID: 20200511061034.GB88791@paquier.xyz
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On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 10:48:58AM -0300, Euler Taveira wrote:
> I wonder if a GUC (cleanup_temp_files_after_crash) is useful for an
> environment that has storage restrictions. This is the second time this
> month that I stumbled on this issue. Of course, I don't expect a postgres
> crash once a while but we know that, due to extensibility, some extensions
> could crash and the only workaround to this issue is to restart service
> (which means a human intervention and an additional downtime).

Sounds like a fair concern to me. It is annoying to have to do some
manual intervention for some environments under disk pressure.
--
Michael

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