On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 22:58 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > It's intentional ... not that other people haven't complained about it > before. Remember that what you have done is forced a crash, and > recovery from it is crash recovery. If we proactively removed such > files we would very possibly be destroying evidence of forensic value.
I thought that might be the case, but I wasn't able to find any previous discussions. It might be a good idea to issue a warning during recovery, however, like "possible orphaned file ...". I'm not sure if it's worth the bookkeeping effort though. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs