Re: File leak?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> > I wonder if we could clean up those lost files on database recovery or
> > vacuum.
> 
> There is a TODO for this, but it seems exceedingly low priority to me.
> 
> In any case I'd not recommend troubling to work on the problem until
> the tablespaces merry-go-round comes to a complete stop, since that
> restructuring will likely change what you'd need to do to identify
> unreferenced files.

Agreed on the need to wait until after tablespaces. I have an old patch
that does lookups on postmaster start to check for unreferenced files,
but it wasn't perfect.

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