Re: Nasty VACUUM/bgwriter/segmentation bug

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 12:03 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 12:01:15PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 11:28 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Tom,
> > >
> > > > Let's go with the easy fix. With regular 1GB segment size,
> > > > having a few empty files in the data directory isn't going to
> > > > hurt anyone.
> > >
> > > No, but it will confuse DBAs ("What the heck are all these 0B
> > > files?"). Maybe we should add code to VACUUM to look for these
> > > empty file segments and unlink them if they haven't been touched
> > > in a while (say, a day?).
> >
> > I don't buy this argument. A smart DBA isn't going to do any such
> > thing. If you go around deleting unknown files you deserve
> > everything you get. Especially if you are in the middle of a
> > PostgreSQL cluster tree.
>
> A mention in the README in that directory wouldn't hurt, tho.

Definitely :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Cheers,
> D
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