Re: Vacuuming leaked temp tables (once again)
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2008-06-27T17:14:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> Or we could have autovacuum just drop orphaned temp tables, *if* >> they have gotten old enough to need anti-wraparound vacuuming. >> While I'm still uncomfortable with having autovac drop anything, >> at least this would avoid the worst cases of "gee I really needed >> that data to investigate the crash". The main attractions of this >> idea are avoiding the corrupt-index issue and not doing vacuuming >> work that's 99.99% sure to be useless. > > That sounds a lot simpler and better to me. Yeah, when I read the original this one struck me as almost a no-brainer choice. cheers andrew