Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Yeah, we had better investigate some way to clean them up. It was never > >> obvious before that it mattered to get rid of orphan temp tables, but I > >> guess it does. > > > Would it be enough to delete the tuple from pg_class? > > No, you need a full DROP. I don't see that that's harder than removing > only the pg_class tuple --- the problem in either case is to be sure > it's OK. In particular, how to avoid a race condition against an > incoming backend that adopts that BackendId? Worst-case, you could be > deleting a temp table he just made.
Oh, I was just thinking in way for Bruce to get out of his current situation. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
