Re: Postmaster holding unlinked files for pg_largeobject table

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kevin(dot)grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, alexk <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alexander Shulgin <ash(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postmaster holding unlinked files for pg_largeobject table
Date: 2011-06-09 18:45:31
Message-ID: 12386.1307645131@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mi jun 08 14:28:02 -0400 2011:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>> This customer is running on 8.4 so I started from there; should I
>>> backpatch this to 8.2, or not at all?

>> I'm not excited about back-patching it...

> Bummer.

Well, of course mine is only one opinion; anybody else feel this *is*
worth risking a back-patch for?

My thought is that it needs some beta testing. Perhaps it'd be sane to
push it into beta2 now, and then back-patch sometime after 9.1 final,
if no problems pop up.

regards, tom lane

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