Re: bgwriter holds onto file handles of deleted files

On 1/8/12, Alex Shulgin <ash(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
>> It looks like it hold the file handles until either is it is killed
>> and restarted, or until they get flushed out of vfd cache (which holds
>> ~1000 files on my machine, so that can be a long time and lot of disk
>> space).
>>
>> I don't know if this is a bug exactly, but it seems pretty unfortunate.
>
> I wonder if this is similar to what we've experienced here (follow the
> thread for the actual patches):
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-06/msg00295.php
>
> Maybe you're running a version still affected by that bug?

Hi Alex,

I'm running git HEAD. Sorry, I should have stated that.

Cheers,

Jeff