Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 15:14, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What do you do to ensure the temp files *do* get cleaned up eventually?
> It would probably be good to clean up any remaining temp files when the
> backend shuts down. Would that be ok?
Yes, you need to do that. Leaving it for the next postmaster restart
isn't acceptable (production sites don't restart the postmaster often).
It should be reasonably painless to do this in a shmem_exit hook.
regards, tom lane