Re: Migrating a Database to a new tablespace

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:35:39PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

Is it able to also delete the cruft? Seems to be a useful extension,
especially on windows, which AFAIK doesn't have an equivalent to ``.
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