Hi, Tom, Tom Lane wrote:
>>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 also don't like the idea of full automated deletion, that's why I wrote half-automated. I thought of a tool that enumarates suspective files. Then admins can look at the mtime/atime, or move them away and try what happens, or even pipe the output to "xargs rm -rf" if they want. Thanks, Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
