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Old 04-12-2008, 09:51 AM
Bernd Helmle
 
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Default Re: Reviewing temp_tablespaces GUC patch

--On Freitag, Mai 25, 2007 10:49:29 +0000 Jaime Casanova
<systemguards@gmail.com> wrote:

> No, because the RemovePgTempFiles() call in PostmasterMain() will
> remove all tmp files at startup.


Hmm isn't RemovePgTempFiles() called on postmaster startup only? What will
happen if a temp tablespace is out of disk space, and the backend leaves
all previously created temp files there? Under these assumption we'll need
to restart the postmaster to get a clean tablespace ready to drop...

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Thanks

Bernd

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