On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:35:39PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Markus Schaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As I said the leftovers are likely to be caused by hard kills and > > > backend crashes, so I would not go into deeper analysis, but maybe the > > > finding and possibly removing of such leftovers should be half-automated > > > to assist server admins. > > > > It's been discussed. Personally I'm afraid of the idea of automatically > > deleting files that seem unreferenced, but having a tool to find them > > for manual deletion isn't a bad idea. I think Bruce had a prototype > > patch at one point --- not sure what the status is. > > > > I have work someone did in the past. I just need to be updated to deal > with tablespaces. > > ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches/checkfile.* > > Let me know if you want details.
Is it able to also delete the cruft? Seems to be a useful extension, especially on windows, which AFAIK doesn't have an equivalent to ``. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
