Re: Reviewing temp_tablespaces GUC patch

From: Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>
To: Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reviewing temp_tablespaces GUC patch
Date: 2007-05-25 15:30:27
Message-ID: B1A57B343343CE1F5AB1D932@imhotep.credativ.de
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--On Freitag, Mai 25, 2007 10:49:29 +0000 Jaime Casanova
<systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> No, because the RemovePgTempFiles() call in PostmasterMain() will
> remove all tmp files at startup.

Hmm isn't RemovePgTempFiles() called on postmaster startup only? What will
happen if a temp tablespace is out of disk space, and the backend leaves
all previously created temp files there? Under these assumption we'll need
to restart the postmaster to get a clean tablespace ready to drop...

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Thanks

Bernd

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