Re: Postmaster holding unlinked files for pg_largeobject table

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> My thought is that it needs some beta testing.  Perhaps it'd be sane to
>>> push it into beta2 now, and then back-patch sometime after 9.1 final,
>>> if no problems pop up.
>
>> I think it'd be sensible to back-patch it.  I'm not sure whether now
>> or later.  It's a bug fix that is biting real users in the field, so
>> it seems like we ought to do something about it.
>
> I don't deny it's a bug fix; I'm just dubious about the risk-reward
> ratio.  As to risk: the patch isn't trivial (notice Alvaro didn't get it
> right the first time).  As to reward: it's been like that since forever,
> so if the problem were really serious, we'd have identified it before.
>
> Letting it age a bit during beta would do a lot to damp down the risk
> side of the equation.

OK by me.

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