Re: Migrating a Database to a new tablespace

Tom Lane wrote:
> Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com> writes:
> > As I said the leftovers are likely to be caused by hard kills and
> > backend crashes, so I would not go into deeper analysis, but maybe the
> > finding and possibly removing of such leftovers should be half-automated
> > to assist server admins.
> 
> It's been discussed.  Personally I'm afraid of the idea of automatically
> deleting files that seem unreferenced, but having a tool to find them
> for manual deletion isn't a bad idea.  I think Bruce had a prototype
> patch at one point --- not sure what the status is.
> 

I have work someone did in the past.  I just need to be updated to deal
with tablespaces.
ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches/checkfile.*

Let me know if you want details.

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