Re: Postmaster holding unlinked files for pg_largeobject table

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>, alexk <alexk@commandprompt.com>, Alexander Shulgin <ash@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-06T16:17:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Reset reindex-in-progress state before reverifying an exclusion constraint.

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun jun 06 12:10:24 -0400 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

> > Hmm interesting.  I don't think the placement suggested by Tom would be
> > useful, because the Zabbix backends are particularly busy all the time,
> > so they wouldn't run ProcessCatchupEvent at all.
> 
> Yeah, I wasn't that thrilled with the suggestion either.  But we can't
> just have backends constantly closing every open FD they hold, or
> performance will suffer.  I don't see any very good place to do this...

How about doing something on an sinval message for pg_database?
That doesn't solve the WAL problem Kevin found, of course ...

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