From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> |
Cc: | "Neil Conway" <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL Patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: holdable cursors |
Date: | 2003-03-31 17:09:40 |
Message-ID: | 23541.1049130580@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> writes:
> From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
>> Yes, you need to do that. Leaving it for the next postmaster restart
>> isn't acceptable (production sites don't restart the postmaster often).
> Would it make any sense for vacuum to look around for (and clean up) unused
> temp files left either from this or sorts etc....
I see no need for that. If a backend leaves temp files on normal exit,
the backend is broken and must be fixed. If it leaves temp files upon
crashing, well we can't expect anything from it; but that scenario will
cause a postmaster restart, which will clean out the temp files.
regards, tom lane
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