Re: fd.c doesn't remove files on a crash-restart

On 03/16/2016 11:08 AM, Andres Freund wrote:

>>>> Well as Andrew said, we could also create postmaster start option that
>>>> defaults to don't save.
>>>
>>> I think these days you'd simply use restart_after_crash = false. For
>>> debugging I found that to be rather valuable.
>>
>> That would have created an extended outage for this installation. I am not
>> sure we can force that for something that should not happen in the first
>> place (filling up the hard drive with dead files).
>
> Nah, I meant that if you want to debug something you'd set that (i.e. in
> the case you need the temp files), not you should set that.

Aww, yes that would be reasonable as well.

JD




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