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Re: pg_upgrade --logfile option documentation

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: "A.M." <agentm@themactionfaction.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-03-08T21:59:59Z
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On tor, 2012-03-08 at 16:44 -0500, A.M. wrote:
> The point of writing temp files to the /tmp/ directory is that they
> don't need to be cleaned up.

I don't think so.  If everyone just left their junk lying around
in /tmp, it would fill up just like any other partition.