"Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Someone just mentioned doing the same
>> thing but pushing the unreferenced files into a "trash" directory
>> instead of actually deleting them.
> That sounds like a good idea to me.
It suddenly strikes me that there's lots of precedent for it: fsck moves
unreferenced files into lost+found, instead of just deleting them.
regards, tom lane