Re: Reviewing temp_tablespaces GUC patch

On 5/25/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On 5/24/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> >> What happens if you create a cursor that stores something (sort
> >> intermediate results?) in a temp tablespace, FETCH some from it, then
> >> someone else drops the tablespace and FETCH some more?
>
> > you can't drop a tablespace that is not empty.
>
> So a temp file left over by a crashed backend would indefinitely prevent
> dropping the tablespace, until someone manually cleaned it up?
>

No, because the RemovePgTempFiles() call in PostmasterMain() will
remove all tmp files at startup.

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