Jeff Janes escribió:
> With the stats file split patch 187492b6c2e8cafc5 introduced in 9.3dev, now
> after a crash the postmaster will try to delete all files in the directory
> stats_temp_directory.  When that is just a subdirectory of PGDATA, this is
> fine. But it seems rather hostile when it is set to a shared directory,
> like the popular /dev/shm.

> Does this need to be fixed, or at least documented?

I think we need it fixed so that it only deletes the files matching a
well-known pattern.  In fact, there's an XXX comment about this in the
code:

        /* XXX should we try to ignore files other than the ones we write? */

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