Re: pg_temp.XX.0

You can stop the postmaster and start the postgres binary with the -O
flag and delete the pg_temp tables. We don't have a cleanup for these
failed backends but we should. Normally they are cleaned up.

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Daniel Kalchev wrote:
> I found out, that there are some probably temporary relations in one of my
> databases, with names (that show in vacuum verbose output) like
> pg_temp.12720.0.
>
> Are these the result of CREATE TEMP TABLE or simmilar and if so, can such
> relations be safely dropped? Perhaps a good idea to add some vacuum
> functionality to do this.
>
> Daniel
>
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