Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> One other thought about all this: in the past, one objection that's been
>> raised to deleting files during crash restart is the possible loss of
>> forensic evidence.

> ...  With this patch, we can be sure of removing ALL
> stray files, which is maybe ever-so-slightly leaky in CVS HEAD.  But
> on the other hand, because it hooks into the existing temporary file
> cleanup code, it only happens at cluster startup, NOT after a backend
> crash.

Doh.  Thanks.

                        regards, tom lane

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