Re: Bug: Unreferenced temp tables disables vacuum to update xid

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On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:37:18 -0800
Darcy Buskermolen <darcyb(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> > 1. I had to manually vacuum because we had already hid xidStoplimit.
> >
> > 2. Postgres has been restarted multiple times and it made zero
> > difference.
> >
> > E.g; PostgreSQL isn't cleaning up after itself and it isn't apparent
> > when it happens.
>
> After a fresh start of postgres, there should be no temp tables, so
> would a work around to this at least be at postmaster start to (for a
> lack of a better pseudo code ) DROP SCHEMA pg_temp* CASCADE; before
> coming up in interactive mode? Doing this would at least have
> allowedthe manual vacuum to do what it needed and not have caused
> confusion on the part of the user? Also it would have greatly reduced
> the total time to resolution, and not requiring hacking the backend
> to get there.
>

+1

Joshua D. Drake

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