Re: Deleted files still open long after droping a database

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Vincent de Phily <vincent(dot)dephily(at)mobile-devices(dot)fr>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Deleted files still open long after droping a database
Date: 2014-02-18 02:14:35
Message-ID: 11959.1392689675@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> writes:
> Perhaps we should arrange for a DROP DATABASE command to somehow
> signal all backends to close files from that backend?

See commit ff3f9c8de, which was back-patched into 9.1.x as of 9.1.7.

Unfortunately, the complainant is running 9.1.2.

regards, tom lane

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