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: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>, alexk <alexk@commandprompt.com>, Alexander Shulgin <ash@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-08T17:52:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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

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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar jun 07 12:26:34 -0400 2011:

> It's not *that* many levels: in fact, I think md.c is the only level
> that would just have to pass it through without doing anything useful.
> I think that working from there is a saner and more efficient approach
> than what you're sketching.
> 
> If you want a concrete design sketch, consider this:

Okay, here's a patch implementing this idea.  It seems to work quite
well, and it solves the problem in a limited testing scenario -- I
haven't yet tested on the customer machines.

This customer is running on 8.4 so I started from there; should I
backpatch this to 8.2, or not at all?  (I have all the branches ready
anyway.)

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